{"id":12051,"date":"2025-09-11T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/?p=12051"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:25:55","slug":"the-humanities-forum-hosts-martin-nowak-tomorrow-9-12-at-330pm-in-ruane-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/the-humanities-forum-hosts-martin-nowak-tomorrow-9-12-at-330pm-in-ruane-105\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humanities Forum Hosts Martin Nowak &#8211; Tomorrow, (9\/12) at 3:30pm in Ruane 105"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evolution has governed life on Earth over a period of almost 4 billion years. Prof. Nowak will argue that mutation, selection and cooperation are the three fundamental principles of evolution: 1) Mutation generates variation, 2) Natural selection acts on variation, 3) Cooperation establishes higher levels of adaptation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk will explore how cooperation is the master architect of biological complexity\u2013and, in the human realm, a preparation for love. Drawing on his recent books, entitled Beyond and Within, Prof. Nowak will argue that science and mathematics call for worldviews that combine naturalism and theism\u2013and that evolution prepares us for a life that is oriented toward the highest good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-1024x568.png\" alt=\"A Humanities Forum image showing featured speaker, Martin Nowak.\" class=\"wp-image-12055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-1536x852.png 1536w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-2048x1136.png 2048w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-1568x870.png 1568w, https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Copy-of-Humanties_Forum_Fall24_Digital_Signs.pdf-1320x732.png 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us tomorrow for the Humanities Forum at 3:30pm in Ruane 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friarwire.providence.edu\/morning-mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}