FREE PUBLIC EVENT SERIES: Regent College, UBC’s Graduate and Faculty Christian Fellowship, Trinity Western University, and CSCA’s Vancouver chapter present a live, online lecture series with Sy Garte (Visiting Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology, Rutgers University), followed by discussion.
Event Series Schedule: Sep 28 – Oct 1
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A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith
This talk will focus on Garte’s early upbringing in atheism, his indoctrination into a scientific worldview, and his beginning to question materialism based on quantum physics and molecular biology. He will include examples from physics such as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the observer effect, quantum entanglement, from physics; and the complexity of biochemical systems such as protein synthesis, photosynthesis and abiogenesis. He will discuss how these scientific findings made him question pure materialism and begin to wonder if being agnostic about God was more rational than strict atheism. Most of the talk will be a summary of the first part of his book, but he will also briefly summarize how God called him to faith in Jesus.
Sy (Seymour) Garte, PhD in biochemistry, has been a tenured professor at New York University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pittsburgh, Division Director at the Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health, and interim vice president for research at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is currently visiting professor of pharmacology and toxicology at Rutgers University. He has published over two hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers and four books.
Dr. Garte is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) and serves as vice president for the Washington, DC, metro chapter of the ASA. He was a member of the board of advisors of the John Templeton Foundation and has consulted and blogged for the BioLogos Foundation. He has published articles in Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith and elsewhere and is the editor-in-chief of God and Nature. Dr. Garte has given presentations on the intersection of biochemistry, evolution, and theology at several conferences devoted to science and Christianity. Dr. Garte became a Christian later in life and is now the lay leader of the United Methodist Church in Rockville, MD.