"What's Next? The Content of Our Hope"

6:00 - 8:30 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by the Vancouver Science & Religion Meetup and Endeavor. Note: This is not a World Seen event per se, though it directly presents two different worldviews in conversation. It will include a discussion/debate between Sylvia Benner, a naturalistic atheist, and Ray Lubeck, a Christian theist.

Title: "What's next? The content of our hope"

Description: Every worldview proposes either a solution to or a coping mechanism for what we think are today's biggest problems, with a prospectus for the future.

Description details: The worldview which we adopt seeks to propose a comprehensive story about our origins, our current situation today, and a vision of what we anticipate in the future. Like any story, there is some master plot, a fundamental conflict in which we find ourselves. As we identify what we see is the basic problem of life, we cannot help but project into the future what we think the solution to that problem looks like, whether or not the solution is sufficient and viable, and what is the likely outcome. Our thirst to look ahead in anticipation of the future seems to be a universal component of what it means to be human. But our vision of what we can realistically hope for varies considerably between the differing world-stories. Does our world-story give us a reasonable grounds for hope that we can live, and die, with?

More information at  http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Science-Religion-Discussion-Group/events/24719211/