ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1972.tb00205.x PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN RELIGION AND SCIENCE 02 09 1972 7 3 10.1111/zygo.1972.7.issue-3 168 184

This “proposal” is the present form of an evolving statement, the product of many minds who have spent many years wrestling with the problem of human values in an age of science. It may be said to be a declaration on the part of one of Zygon's sponsors, the Center for Advanced Study in Theology and the Sciences (CASTS) of Meadville/Lombard Theological School, to say it has reached adolescence and must establish itself as an independent and responsible adult institution to carry on its work in the world. The declaration presents to the community of those concerned with religion in an age of science a proposal for the Center's future work.

The document is already the product of several cycles of feedba.ck from a hundred or two of that community. It is here presented to a larger portion of that community as a contribution to the thinking and planning of all who would provide the ideas and institutional support for religion in an age of science. It is also presented with the hope of receiving furthur input of ideas and substance to shape the CASIRAS program. ‐ EDITOR.

. ClydeKluckhohn. The Scientific Study of Values and Contemporary Civilization,” Zygon  1 (1966): 233.

. Monod to the contrary notwithstanding, sec J.Hronowski. New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity: Stratified Stability and Unbounded Plans,Zypn  5 (1970): 18–35; and Theodosius Dobzhansky's review of Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity, in Science175 (1972): 49–50.

. A proposed program of the Center for communication to religious professionals, to men preparing for religious professions, and for doctor of philosophy candidates is illustrated in the appended “Science and Human Destiny.” This program is for degree candidates; but the Center also plans to offer institutes requiring less time and effort for more general communication of findings.

. Ibid.

. Ibid.

. The list of present members includes: Sanborn C. Brown, professor of physics and associate dean of the Graduate School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ralph W. Burhoe, professor and director of the Center for Advanced Study in Theology and the Sciences, Meadville/Lombard Theological School; Kenneth Cau‐then, professor of theology, Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer Divinity School; Everett R. Clinchy, president of the Institute on Man and Science, Rensselaerville, New York; Theodosius Dobzhansky, professor of genetics, University of California, Davis; Donald Szantho Harrington, minister, Community Church, New York, N.Y.; Philip Hefner, professor of systematic theology, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; Lawrence Kohlberg, professor of education and social psychology, Harvard University; Ervin Laszlo, professor of philosophy, State University of New York, Geneseo; George A. Riggdn, Riley Professor of Systematic Theology, Hartford Seminary Foundation; Ormsbee W. Robinson, director of university relations planning, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; and Malcolm R. Sutherland, president and Robert Collyer Professor of Church and Society, Meadville/Lombard Theological School, Chicago.