'Inspiration, Truth and the Search for Understanding'

Below are the panelists and the titles of their initial reflections, which provided a starting point to the conversation:

The Rt Hon & Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Kinds of knowing

Simon Conway-Morris, Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology, University of Cambridge

A mutual crisis of confidence?

Why science and faith have far more in common than is typically realised and both are now suffering a major failure of nerve

Conor Cunningham, Assistant Director, The Centre of Theology and Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Saving the Natural

Why divorcing nature from religion threatens our ability to understand nature itself

Celia Deane-Drummond, Professor and Director, Centre for Religion and the Biosciences, University of Chester

Wonder and Wisdom

After the seminar, several of those who took part were filmed giving their reflections on the seminar, including some students from St Saviour's and St Olave's School, Madeleine Bunting and Simon Conway-Morris, which can be seen here:

Further reflections will be posted on the Archbishop's youtube channel in due course:

http://www.youtube.com/lambethpress

More Coverage:

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=77495

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/07/rowan-williams-on-the-bible-hard-or-soft-real-or-fuzzy.html