<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><b><div style="display:inline"><b><font size="4" face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">MIT Thomistic Institute Presents: </font></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><div style="display:inline"><b><font color="#0b5394" size="4" face="georgia, serif">Should Biologists (and Other Scientists) Use the Terms &#39;SOUL&#39; and &#39;HUMAN NATURE&#39;? </font></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><div style="display:inline"><b><font size="4" color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif"><em id="gmail-m_4332600169139086555gmail-yui_3_17_2_1_1519753328451_317" style="word-wrap:break-word;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0.4px;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong id="gmail-m_4332600169139086555gmail-yui_3_17_2_1_1519753328451_316" style="font-weight:bold;word-wrap:break-word">with Prof. Stephen Meredith (University of Chicago)</strong></em></font></b></div></b></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#000000">Date: </font><font color="#ff0000">Friday, March 9th</font></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#000000">Time: </font><font color="#ff0000">5:30PM</font></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#000000">Place: </font><font color="#ff0000">3-270</font></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4"><b><font color="#ff0000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="4" color="#0000ff" face="georgia, serif"><b>Delicious snacks will be served.</b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><b><font color="#ff0000" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><font face="georgia, serif">(From his U of C Divinity School page) <span style="color:rgb(45,45,44);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Stephen C. Meredith works on the biophysics of protein structure... He also teaches courses... on James Joyce’s </span><em style="color:rgb(45,45,44);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Ulysses</em><span style="color:rgb(45,45,44);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, and Dostoevsky’s </span><em style="color:rgb(45,45,44);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Brothers Karamazov</em><span style="color:rgb(45,45,44);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, and on the problem of evil, focusing on St. Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. His main theological interest is in the problem of evil. In this connection, he is currently writing a book on philosophical (especially metaphysical) and literary perspectives on disease. His current interests also center on the impact of biotechnology and the genetic revolution on the definition of human nature.</span></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000" size="4" face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#38761d" face="georgia, serif">RSVP&#39;ing is optional but helpful. If you feel like it, here&#39;s the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbEJAiRs7KrkV2T-12vXbYNthjmo-d_C3S9tyRydMe7KXMsA/viewform">link</a>! </font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#38761d" face="georgia, serif"><img src="cid:ii_jebz907g0_161ee1e19dc0cad2" wid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