The Faith & Science Research Project was carried out by Faith and Global Engagement (FGE). It has been successfully accomplished in July 2022.
If you are interested in exploring research partnership opportunities with FGE, please contact us via faith@hku.hk. Thank you.
We teach a course at HKU on science and religion, which unpacks how science and religion relate to each other. We unpick many of the assumptions about science and about religion which typically crop up, and argue that there is a better way to approach the topic. We look at such questions as What is science? What is religion? What is true? What is real? What is knowledge? What are persons? What is life? and How then shall we live? Here we provide the course material in blog form and (for HKU members) as video lectures.
Mike Brownnutt has background in experimental physics, having spent many years developing scalable architectures for quantum computers. He also has a degree in theology, in which he looked at how faith is understood in the context of science and of Christian religion. Since 2015 he has worked at the University of Hong Kong, where he is Associate Director of the Faith and Science Collaborative Research Forum.
David Palmer’s interdisciplinary research sits at the intersection of sociology and anthropology, and is informed by scholarly traditions in history, religious studies and Sinology. He leads the Asian Religious Connections research cluster at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
