Dr. Francis Collins, BioLogos Founder and former Director of the National Institutes of Health, will deliver a plenary presentation titled “Come Let Us Reason Together: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust” at the 2024 ASA Annual Meeting.

Additionally, BioLogos board members Praveen Sethupathy, Professor of Physiological Genomics and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cornell University, and Charmaine Royal, the Robert O. Keohane Professor of African & African American Studies, Biology, Global Health, and Family Medicine & Community Health at Duke University, will also present plenary sessions.

“The theme of the 2024 Annual Meeting, ‘One Body, Many Gifts: The Diversity of Divine and Human Endeavor,’ is inspired by Romans 12:4-6a (NET):

‘For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function, so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another. And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us.’

Diversity takes many forms: ethnic, national origin, Christian denomination, gender, age group, scientific field, metaphysical paradigm, etc. Our growing slate of plenary speakers will cover many of these forms of diversity to highlight the ASA’s broad scientific and religious outlook, as well as its focus on leveraging our differences to seek broader and wider influence within both the Church and the scientific community to grow God’s kingdom. The ASA also wants to promote a climate within our individual spheres of professional influence to increase access and development for groups underrepresented in the sciences. As long as the ASA continues to keep Jesus Christ at the center of human endeavor, our differences can only enhance the diverse scientific and theological work of God’s extended family.”

This event is hosted by The American Scientific Affiliation.