Center for Faith & Life Lecture: “The Aesthetics of Scientific Inquiry” by Dr. James Spiegel

Date and time: April 8 @ 7 p.m.

Location: Skye Lounge, Student Center

This is the final lecture of the 2025-26 CFL Lecture Series. Dr. Spiegel will continue his series on the Divine Art Paradigm (DAP), the thesis that the world is fundamentally an aesthetic phenomenon, a literal work of art. This lecture explores the implications for the study of science, which on DAP is properly understood as the empirical study of God’s 3D artwork. Dr. Spiegel will begin with a survey of the artistry evident at both the macro and micro levels of nature, then turning to important aesthetic dimensions of the study of biological origins, scientific theory selection, and scientific theory formation.

Dr. James Spiegel, Director of Geneva College Center for Faith & Life

James S. Spiegel (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is Executive Director of the Geneva College Center for Faith & Life. He has taught at Taylor University, Hillsdale College, and Indianapolis Theological Seminary and has published eleven books and over 100 articles and book chapters.

His publications, which primarily explore issues in ethics, philosophy of religion, and virtue epistemology, have appeared in such scholarly journals as Philosophia, Metaphilosophy, Faith and Philosophy, Sophia, Science and Engineering Ethics, and the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion as well as popular periodicals such as Christianity Today, First Things, The Federalist, and Touchstone.

Spiegel’s books include The Benefits of Providence (Crossway), Faith, Film, and Philosophy (InterVarsity), Hell and Divine Goodness (Cascade), and the two-volume Idealism and Christianity series (Bloomsbury Press). He is currently working on a book entitled A Thing of Beauty: How Everything is Art and Art is Everything (Cascade).