11 March 2022

British Science Week, Judaism

Judaism and science. To celebrate British Science Week (11-20 March) we highlight the work of Daniel Langton, who was co-editor of the Judaism section of Springer’s Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (2013), and author of its entry on 'Progressive Judaism'. He was senior fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at Pennsylvania University 2017-18 where he co-designed their year-long research programme 'Nature between Science and Religion'. He has written extensively on Jews and Darwinism and gave the keynote lecture 'Divine Action for Jewish Evolutionists' for the Science and Religion Forum conference 2013, which had as its theme 'Chance or Providence? Religious Perspectives on Divine Action'. Watch his podcast interview on 'How Darwin Influenced Early Reform Judaism' for the US Judaism-and-science think tank Sinai and Synapses (2018).