Closing Panel & Discussion



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Where do we go from here? In this final session, moderated by Paul Gailey, Symposium participants Owen Flanagan, Teed Rockwell, Evan Thompson, and Anne Klein look forward to the future and comment on the possibilities for further multi-disciplinary dialogue.

Closing remarks: Robert E. Pollack
Director of the Center for the
Study of Science and Religion


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He has been a professor of biological sciences at Columbia since 1978 and was dean of Columbia College from 1982-1989. He received the Alexander Hamilton Medal from Columbia University and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently is on the advisory boards of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the Fred Friendly Seminars, the Program in Religion and Ecology of the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University, and a Senior Consultant for the Director, Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the World Economic forum in Davos; a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; director and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Tapestry Pharmaceuticals Inc.; and a director of Nutrition 21, Inc. He is the author of Signs of Life: The Languages and Meanings of DNA (Houghton Mifflin/Viking Penguin, 1994), The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science (Houghton Mifflin, 1999), and The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Meaning, Order and Free Will in Modern Medical Science (Columbia University Press, 2000). Signs of Life received the Lionel Trilling Award and has been translated into six languages.