Samford University's Center for Environmental Stewardship and Education will host a symposium April 21, as nationally renowned leaders in science, religion and the environment come together to discuss "saving life on earth."

"The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth" includes one of the world's most renowned biologists, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard scholar and Alabama native E. O. Wilson; the Rev. Sally Bingham of the San Francisco-based Regeneration Project, and Craig Branch, executive director of the Birmingham-based Apologetics Resource Center.

The April 21 conference begins at 9 a.m. in the Leslie Wright Fine Arts Center on the Samford campus and is open to the public.

An Alabama native who was raised as a Southern Baptist, Wilson recently released a book entitled, The Creation, in which he challenges religious believers to join with secularists toward the common goal of saving creation. Bingham will discuss the religious call for environmental stewardship, and Branch will give an evangelical perspective of environmental responsibility.

For more information on the conference, go to the Website for the event or call (205) 726-4246. It is located at 800 Lakeshore Drive in Birmingham.