Dr. Michael J. Murray is the President of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and former Arthur and Katherine Shadek Chair in Philosophy and the Humanities at Franklin & Marshall College and Senior Vice President of Programs at the John Templeton Foundation.

He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on two primary areas. The first is seventeenth century history of philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on the work of Gottfried Leibniz. The second is contemporary philosophy of religion. His most recent work focuses on the problem of evil and animal suffering, and cognitive and evolutionary accounts of the origin and persistence of religious belief and practice. In our wide-ranging conversation we discuss...

fine-tuning
gene-editing
climate change
the theological significance of science
cognitive science of religion
evolutionary psychology
cultivating vocations in science among the church
the origins of religion (thorough and clear description of the different options)
revelation's relationship to history and religions
situated knowledge and contextual for religious truth
the historical Adam
the pain and suffering within nature
Extraterrestrial and Artificial Intelligence

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