Samuel McKee

Associate tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University

Samuel McKee is a polymath academic with eight university qualifications. He works as associate tutor in history and philosophy of science at Manchester Metropolitan University, and is a molecular biology researcher with the University of Reading. He is on the board of three science societies, is an associate for the Royal Society of Biology, has four journal associations, and is part of two academic working groups in the history of science.

Samuel lectures frequently on aspects of biology, science and religion, and on the history and philosophy of science, to adults and students. He is a popular science writer for The Conversation, The Institute for Art and Ideas, The Freethinker, and The Church Times. He is an advocate for STEM education with students, works annually in education with people from NASA and ESA, and has seen student science experiments launched to the International Space Station.

Publications

‘Science and Christian apologetics: help or hindrance?’, Christians in Science PreCiS, 2024
‘Science and religion are not in conflict’ IAI TV, 2024
‘Did Schrödinger solve the mystery of life?’, IAI TV, 2024
‘Samuel T. Wilkinson: Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence’, The ISCAST Journal, 2024
‘An AI tool for predicting protein shapes could be transformative for medicine, but it challenges science’s need for proof’, The Conversation, 2024

Lecture titles

Science, religion and the future of humanity
Is it possible in a future of scientific and technological advancement to believe in God? Isn’t religious belief at odds with a rational, scientific worldview? As we look ahead to a future of AI, spacefaring and genetic engineering, is there any place for God?
Is it reasonable to believe in God?
How can a rational person believe in a personal God while maintaining intellectual integrity? Does someone have to close their mind and blindly believe in order for religion to make sense?
Christianity and what it means to be human
Science and philosophy have much to say on what a human being is. Given the history of our planet and species, what does it really mean to be human and alive, and why is the Christian answer the best?