Samford Gets $170,000 Grant for Unique Research on Science and Religion

Samford University’s Center for Science and Religion has received a $170,000 research grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

The Templeton grant is one of 10 to be awarded nationally through the foundation’s “Randomness and Divine Providence” initiative, based at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. The initiative promotes scholarly inquiry into questions of how God might work through intermediate processes.

Starting June 3 and continuing through June 30, 2015, Samford’s project — “Who Pulls the Random Strings in Neural Evolution?” — will address the question through computer-based evolutionary simulations.