Website Launch :

Launch of the Foundation for Humanity's Adulthood's website by one of the world's leading biologists, Professor Charles Birch, at the Australian Museum on the 16th October 1998.

Speakers at the launch of the FHA website.
L to R: Jeremy Griffith, Sam Belfield, John Biggs,
Professor Charles Birch and Tim Macartney-Snape

Professor Charles Birch is Emeritus Professor of Biology Sydney University and 1990 winner of the Templeton Prize, awarded for 'increasing man's understanding of God', and considered 'the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for religion'. Prof. Birch has been described as 'Australia's leading thinker on science and God' (SMH 27/1/98).

In 1991 Prof. Birch gave this commendation for Jeremy Griffith's book Beyond The Human Condition.

'In his book Beyond The Human Condition Jeremy Griffith makes the right emphasis when he identifies the order of the universe and its cosmic and biological evolution as the issue that brings science and religion together. Science shows an increasing complexity in order with cosmic and biological evolution but it finds no meaning to that increase in complexity. Jeremy Griffith finds that a religious vision brings an "integrative meaning" to that order. Moreover it leads him to an ethical vision of integrating love and peace. In all this he gives us a genuinely original and inspiring way of understanding ourselves and our place in the universe. His vision is one I embrace with enthusiasm and commend to all those who are searching for meaning.'

The FHA's website was launched to a capacity audience at the Australian Museum on the evening of 16/10/98. Transcripts of the speeches given that evening by Jeremy Griffith and Prof Charles Birch can be accessed by clicking on the relevant name below. Other speakers on the night were : Tim Macartney-Snape AM who is a biologist, a mountaineer, a twice honoured Order of Austalia recipient and a founding director of the FHA. John Biggs who is a Member of the FHA and a solicitor and Sam Belfield who is a Member of the FHA, the Executive Officer of the FHA and an honours graduate in Rural Science.

Jeremy Griffith :	biologist and author of the biological explanation of the human condition that the FHA supports, introduced Professor Birch by explaining 'How holism relates to the human condition.'
Professor Charles Birch :	Professor Birch then spoke on the 'The nature of holistic science and the need for social tolerance in considering such matters.'