Natural disasters not result of the fall: Professor

Volcanoes, earthquakes and floods are not the result of a fallen world, argues Bob White, Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society and Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. He was guest speaker at a recent Conference on Science and Christianity run by ISCAST (Christians in Science and Technology) and held in Geelong. Here he speaks with Chris Mulherin.

CM: Why did you set up the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion?

BW: I helped to set it up nine years ago with Cambridge biologist, Denis Alexander. We started it because we were concerned that working scientists had shut their minds to the whole idea that God could exist or was in any way relevant to them. So we wanted to reach our tribe of scientists with some of the truths of the gospel or even just to say that it was reasonable to hold Christian faith.

We didn