Fr Simon Francis Gaine is Acting Director of the Thomistic Institute and Pinckaers Chair in Theological Anthropology and Ethics at the Angelicum. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Oxford on the topic of uncreated and created grace, and has served for many years as a Lector in Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology here at Blackfriars, Oxford. He has recently been appointed a member of the International Theological Commission by the Holy Father.
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The Evolution of the Human Race
15th October 2021: 8:00 pm - 9:15 pm BST
An Online Lecture by Members of the Thomistic Evolution Project and sponsored by the Aquinas Institute.
Rev. Prof. Simon Gaine, OP
What Does the Church Actually Say about Human Origins?
Prof Nicanor Austriaco, OP
The Emergence of Human Language & the Creation of the Human Soul
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco currently serves as an Associate Professor of Biology and an Instructor of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island and is a Visiting Professor of Biological Sciences, UST . His NIH-funded research laboratory at Providence College is investigating the genetics of programmed cell death using the yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans, as model organisms. Recently he has worked and published extensively on COVID-19 vaccinations.
Prof Thomas Davenport, OP
How Should We Teach Evolution in High Schools and At Home?
Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. is a Dominican friar, physicist, and philosopher. Before joining the Dominican order he studied physics at the California Institute of Technology before going on to earn his doctorate in physics from Stanford University studying theoretical particle physics. The focus of his scientific research is writing and testing simulations for high energy particle colliders like the LHC at CERN. After joining the Dominicans in 2010, he studied philosophy and theology in preparation for his ordination to the priesthood in 2017. In addition, he earned a Licentiate in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, focusing on the philosophy of science and natural philosophy. From 2018-2020 he served as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Providence College in Providence, RI, where he taught physics and picked up his research in particle physics again.
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Aquinas Institute
aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk