The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is a Cambridge-based interdisciplinary research institute improving public understanding of religious beliefs in relation to the sciences.
Churches, Course
Justice runs as a central theme throughout religion. We cannot deny, ignore, or escape this. Science, by contrast, is sometimes portrayed as standing apart: the numbers and the facts simply are what they are. If we scratch below the surface, however, we see that science is also intertwined with questions of justice; often able to […]
Lecture
On Thursday 15th May 2025 Prof. Ard Louis spoke at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Public Lecture entitled ‘Evolution, Algorithms, and Convergence’. The space of biological possibilities is unimaginably vast. For example, if you tried to generate every possible DNA sequence just 125 base pairs long—a minuscule fraction of the three billion base […]
Churches, Course
Monday 30th June – Friday 4th July, 2025
Churches, Course
Thursdays: 23rd Oct 2025, 27th Nov, 29th Jan 2026, 26th Feb, 26th Mar, 1930 - 2100
Research seminar given by Prof. Thilo Stadelmann on 8th October 2024 Slides [pdf] Related Article – Assessing Deep Learning
Publications
By Dr Nick Spencer & Dr Hannah Waite (Theos) | Published March 2025
Are science and religion really in conflict? Or is the debate shaped by outdated assumptions? In The Landscapes of Science and Religion, Spencer and Waite challenge essentialist views, exploring how these two fields are socially constructed, historically shaped, and deeply intertwined.
Report
By The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and Forum for Peace – London | Published October 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a groundbreaking technology capable of generating ideas and making autonomous decisions, raising significant questions about human identity and purpose—issues that religion has long explored.
This handbook aims to examine the relationship between AI, ethics, and faith, emphasising the importance of diverse faith perspectives in shaping the future of AI.
