Noted author and theologian Ted Peters will be the guest speaker during the annual D. Perry and Betty Ginn Lecture Series at Mercer University's McAfee School of  Theology in Atlanta.

Peters  is an authority on science and religion and a professor of systematic theology at the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and Graduate Theological Union and director of the Institute for Theology and Ethics.  He will speak about   “Evolution, Atheism and Faith” at 10:45 a.m.  Tuesday in  Cecil B. Day Hall, and  on“Extraterrestrial Life and the Christian Earthview,” at 10:45 a.m. Thursday in the Academic and Conference Center Chapel.

At 10 a.m.  Wednesday,  Peters will speak in chapel on Mercer’s Macon campus. That afternoon, at 4 p.m., he will lecture on “The Stem Cell Controversy: Who’s Fighting with Whom about What?” in the Medical School Auditorium.

Peters serves as editor-in-chief of Dialog, A Journal of Theology, and co-editor of Theology and Science journal.

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