The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be presented by Cornell history professor William Carroll and University of Oxford nuclear physicist Peter Hodgson. Cornell also will host a symposium on cosmology and creation at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 18, in Hedges Conference Room at The Commons. Commentaries will be provided by Hodgson, whose expertise includes the relationship between theology and physics in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Zachary Hayes of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
Admission is free.
Carroll, whose expertise is in the history of science and theology, taught at Oxford in October and November.