The professor of the School Ecclesiasticus of Philosophy and member of group of research Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) Javier Sánchez Cañizares participated from November 16 to 19 in the congress: 'Abraham's Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions', organized by Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

This congress has been a further step in the partnership among leading scholars around the world to explore the links that may exist between natural causation and Providence in monotheistic religious traditions.

The sessions were conducted by Karl Giberson, lecturer at the last Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture. Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture.. Giberson and seventeen other speakers, all at the forefront of the relationship between Science and Religion, studied the importance of randomness in nature and its possible relationship with divine action in the world.

Among the topics discussed are: the meaning of randomness in the early Christian tradition; the Degree complexity of the universe; and the relationship between randomness and the problem of evil.