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Wolfgang Achtner
Instructor, Science-Theology, University of Giessen and
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Local Society: Arbeitskreis Naturwissenschaft-Theology
Giessen, Germany
Paper Title: Worldviews in Mathematics
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 in Class of ’49
Musa Akrami
Department of Philosophy,
Islamic Azad University (Science and Research Branch)
Tehran, Iran
Paper Title: Towards Solving the Philosophical Problems of Cosmological Fine-Tuning Argument
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
Liliana Albertazzi
Professor of Philosophy of Language, Trento University
Director, Mitteleuropa Foundation
Local Society: Central-European Perspectives on Causality and Motivation
Bolzano, Italy
Paper Title: A Cognitive Analysis of Religious Experience
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Evgeny Arinin
Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Vladimir State University
Local Society: Pomor Dialogue
Arkhangelsk, Russia
Paper Title: Humanity and Nature: Religious Education in Modern Russia
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Valeria Ascheri
Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Local Society: Documentazione Interdisciplinare di Scienza e Fede (DISF) Working Group
Rome, Italy
Paper Title: Facing the Task of Teaching a Science and Religion Dialogue
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Hamidreza Ayatollahy
Associate Professor and Head of Philosophy Department
Allameh Tabatabaii University
Tehran, Iran
Paper Title: The Religious Context of Scientific Development
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Lee W. Bailey
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY, USA
Paper Title: Android Robot Enchantments
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Ian G. Barbour
Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor Emeritus of Science
Carleton College
Northfield, MN, USA
Paper Title: Intelligent Design: A Scientific and Religious Critique
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 9:40 - 10:40 AM in Hall of Flags
Stephen Barr
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware
Newark, DE, USA
Paper Title: Design, Chance, and Law: How are they related?
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
Mikuláš Blažek and Miroslav Karaba
Blažek: Professor of Physics, University of Trnava, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Karaba: Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Trnava
Local Society: Towards Reconciliation of Religion with Science
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Paper Title: Several Open Problems in Physics and Cosmology
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Raffaele P. Bonomo
Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences
University of Catania
Local Society: Sezione Euresis di Catania (Catania Section of the Euresis Society)
Catania, Italy
Paper Title: Science and Religious Sense
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Michael Breen
Head and Senior Lecturer, Department of Media & Communication Studies
University of Limerick
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Religious Values and Social Change
Limerick, Ireland
Paper Title: Evaluating National Responses to Questions concerning Technology and Transcendence and Interpreting the Relationship between them from the data of the European Values Study
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Hall of Flags
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Terry Bristol
Professor, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Local Society:
Portland, OR, USA
Paper Title: The Continuum, the Discontinuum and the Middle Way
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Carole Brooke and Andrew Basden
Brooke: Lincoln Business School, University of Lincoln
Basden: Information Systems Institute, University of Salford
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Religious Roots in Information Systems (RRIS)
Brayford Pool and Salford, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Faith in Information Systems?
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Hall of Flags
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Grezgorz Bugajak
Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy,
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
Warsaw, Poland
Paper Title: Human Origins: Continuous Evolution versus Punctual Creation
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Bodek
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Emmanuel M. Carreira
Professor (retired), Philosophy Department
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Local Society: Science, Culture, Theology Group / Asociación Española Ciencia y Cultura (AECyC)
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Evolution in Living Forms: Determinism, Chance, Purposeful Design
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Bodek
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J. Brian Cassel, et al.
Senior Analyst, Massey Cancer Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
Local Society: Life Sciences and Religion Community Forum of Central Virginia
Richmond, VA, USA
Paper Title: Moral Imperatives for Palliative Care and the Implications for the Science-and-Religion Dialogue
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 11:00 - 12:30 AM in Class of ’49
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Kresimir Cerovac
Editor, Croatian Catholic Radio (part-time)
Zagreb, Croatia
Paper Title: Complementarity of Faith and Science
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Class of ’49
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Christopher Key Chapple and James Landry
Loyola Marymount University
Local Society: Teilhard Religion and Science Society
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paper Title: Science and Religion: Building a Culture of Connection and Care, from Teilhard to Berry
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Franklin
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Dennis Cheek
Vice President of Education
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Kansas City, MO, USA
Paper Title: Evangelicals, Biblical Hermeneutics and Reading the Book of Nature
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Alexei G. Chernyakov
Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy
St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy
Local Society: SPECRS Workshops for Academic and Civic Groups
St. Petersburg, Russia
Paper Title: Mathematics as a Formal Ontology: The Hermeneutical Dimension of Natural Sciences and Eastern Patristics
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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John T. Chirban
Director, Healing Initiative, Institute of Medicine, Psychology, and Religion and Clinical Instructor
Harvard Medical School
Local Society: The Healing Initiative
Cambridge, MA, USA
Paper Title: Epistemologies and Methodologies of Holistic Healing In Byzantium and the Practice of Holistic Healing Today
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Ron Choong
Executive Director, Academy of Christian Thought and Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton Theological Seminary
Local Society: Discourse in Science and Theology
New York, NY, USA
Paper Title: Why Are We Moral?
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Gerald B. Cleaver
Institutional Affiliation: Assistant Professor and Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and String Theory Division, Department of Physics,
Baylor University
Local Society: The Baylor Society for Conversations in Religion, Ethics, and Science
Waco, TX, USA
Paper Title: Before the Big Bang: String Theory, God, and the Origin of the Universe
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Antonio Clericuzio
Department of Philosophy
University of Cassino
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Monte Cassino Foundation Research Group
Cassino, Italy
Paper Title: The Mechanical Philosophy and the Design Argument
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 in Bodek
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Roy Clouser
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
The College of New Jersey
Haddonfield, NJ, USA
Paper Title: Genesis Regained
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Ronald Cole-Turner
H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Paper Title: More than Human: Religion, Bioethics, and the Transhuman Prospect
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Walter Daniel, Jr.
Research Analyst, Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery (Medical)
Carolinas Medical Center
Charlotte, NC, USA
Paper Title: When is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Component Parts in a Constantly Changing Universe? “Explanation” in Science and Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Gregory N. Derry
Professor, Physics Department
Loyola College in Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
Paper Title: Synapse and Spirit: A New Look at Some Old Problems
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30AM in Class of ’49
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Alfredo Dinis
Dean, Associate Professor, and Lecturer of Logic, Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science, Faculty of Philosophy of Braga
Catholic University of Portugal
Braga, Portugal
Paper Title: Body, Soul and God: Philosophy, Theology and the Cognitive Sciences
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Ade P. Dopamu
Director, African Center for Religions and the Sciences (ACRS)
Professor, Department of Religions, University of Ilorin
Local Society: Exploring Contemporary Issues in Science, Religion, and the Environment in an African Context
Ilorin, Nigeria
Paper Title: Change and Continuity: The Yoruba Belief in Life after Death
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Eugene A. Dunkley and James H. Zahniser
Dunkley: Assistant Professor, Department of BiologyZahniser: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Greenville College
Local Society: Greenville Religion and Science Society
Greenville, IL, USA
Paper Title: Teaching Science - Faith Dialogue in an Age of Science
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Warren M. Eshbach
Faculty
Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg
Gettysburg, PA, USA
Paper Title: Intelligent Design and its Effect and Aftermath in One Community
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Valery N. Finoghentov and Svetlana Sheetlina
Finoghentov: Professor, Chief of Department of Philosophy, Ufa State Institute of Service
Sheetlina: Post-graduate, Department of Philosophy, Ufa State Institute of Service
Local Society: Quest for Modern World Views
Ufa, Russia
Paper Title: Time Portrayed
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Lucio Florio
Theology Department, Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino
Local Society: The Science-Theology Society of La Plata
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paper Title: Cosmic Christology and Pneumatology: Updating a Traditional Theological Topic to Approach a Dynamic Universe
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in the Hall of Flags
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Thomas B. Fowler
President, Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America, and
Associate of Fundación Xavier Zubiri LSI
Local Society: Fundación Xavier Zubiri LSI
Washington, DC, USA
Paper Title: Zubiri’s Reality by Postulation and its Implication for the Relationship Between Science and Religion
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer
Associate Professor and Director of Religious Studies Program
Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Paper Title: Jewish Theology and the Challenges of Neuroscience: The Case of Mordecai Kaplan
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Georg Gasser; Josef Quitterer; Joseph Wang; and Nikolaus Wandinger
Gasser, Quitterer, and Wang: Department of PhilosophyWandinger: Department of Systematic Theology
University of Innsbruck
Local Society: Research Group on the Soul and the New Naturalistic Challenge
Innsbruck, Austria
Paper Title: Identity through change - Why the soul has not died yet
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Karen Wendy Gilbert
Professor, Department of Teacher Education
Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
New York, NY, USA
Paper Title: Locating Agency in an "Oreo" Subject: Ontological and Ethical Considerations
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C. Kevin Gillespie and Phyllis Zagano
Gillespie: Loyola College in Maryland, Columbia, MD, USA
Zagano: Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA
Paper Title: Positive Psychology and Spirituality: Conversations about Conflation, Collaboration, Change and Continuity
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Julio A. Gonzalo
Department of Materials Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Local Society: Science, Culture, Theology Group / Asociación Española Ciencia y Cultura (AECyC)
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Planck, Einstein, Objective Reality and the Religion of Scientism
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Julio A. Gonzalo and Lucia Guerra-Menéndez
Gonzalo: Department of Materials Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Guerra-Menéndez: Institute Angel Ayala, University of San Pablo CEU, Madrid
Local Society: Science, Culture, Theology Group / Asociación Española Ciencia y Cultura (AECyC)
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Upper Bounds to World Population from a Scientific and Biblical Perspective
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Ursula Goodenough
Professor of Biology
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Paper Title: Teaching the History of Nature: Towards an Integrated Science Curriculum
Monday June 5, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 in Hall of Flags
Peter G. Grossenbacher
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Contemplative Psychology
Naropa University
Boulder, CO, USA
Paper Title: Buddhism and the Brain: An Empirical Approach to Spirituality
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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José M. Guibert
Vice-rector and Delegate for Mission Development;Professor, Department of Management and Department of Ethics
University of Deusto
Local Society: Grupo Deusto de Ética y Tecnología (GDET)
Bilbao, Spain
Paper Title: Matteo Ricci (1552-1610): Best Practices in Cultural and Religious Dialogue through Science
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
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Walter B. Gulick
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities, and Religious Studies
Montana State University - Billings
Local Society: Montana Symposium on Religion and Science
Billings, MT, USA
Paper Title: Rethinking Causality
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Sara Fletcher Harding
Co-Director, Florida Center for Science and Religion and Associate Professor of Religion
Florida Southern College
Local Society: Florida Center for Science and Religion (FCSR)
Lakeland, FL, USA
Paper Title: Reflections on the Interdisciplinary, Team-taught, Undergraduate Course in Science & Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Dieter Hattrup
Professor for Dogmatic Theology, Theologische Fakultät Paderborn
University of Paderborn
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Chance and Necessity (NChance)
Paderborn, Germany
Paper Title: Freedom as Shadow Play of Chance and Necessity
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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John Haught
Professor of Theology
Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA
Paper Title: Love and Happiness in an Unfinished Universe
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM in Irvine Auditorium
Peter M J. Hess and R.J. McDonald
Hess: St. Mary’s College, Moraga, CA, USA
McDonald: Retired, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Paper Title: Ethics in Uncertainty: Peak Oil, Overpopulation, and Precautionary Principles
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 in Franklin
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Soraj Hongladarom
Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University
Local Society: The Thousand Stars Buddhism and Science Group
Bangkok, Thailand
Paper Title: Metaphysics of Change and Continuity: Exactly What Is Changing and What Gets Continued?
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Michael Howlett
Head of Department of Applied Arts
Waterford Institute of Technology
Local Society: (SophiaEuropa) Culture,Technology, and Religion in Society
Waterford, Ireland
Paper Title: A Cultural Critique of ICT-led Irish Society: Religious and Historical Perspectives
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Hall of Flags
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Yahya Oyewole Imam
Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
University of Maiduguri
Local Society: Association for the Study of the Interplay between Religion and Science (ASIRS)
Maiduguri, Nigeria
Paper Title: Healing in Islam
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Sriya Iyer
Director of Studies, Economics
St. Catherine’s College, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Paper Title: Religion, Caste, and Job Reservation in India
Saturday June 3, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Christopher Jargodzki
Professor of Physics and Director of The Center for Cooperative Phenomena
Central Missouri State University
Local Society: The Center for Cooperative Phenomena
Warrensburg, MO, USA
Paper Title: From Reductionism to Emergence: Science Takes a Cooperative Turn
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Kevin M. Johnson
Adjunct Professor, Sacred Heart University and Faculty Member, Theology Department
Fairfield College Preparatory School
Local Society: Ignatian Residential College Local Society
Fairfield, CT, USA
Paper Title: Theological Insights for a Postmodern Science and Religion Dialogue: Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Comparative Theology
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Gennady A. Kalyabin
Samara Academy of Humanities, Samara Aerospace University, and Samara Orthodox Spiritual Seminary
Local Society: Through Faith We Understand
Samara, Russia
Paper Title: Mathematical Approaches to Changes and Continuity
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Aaron Kheriaty
Resident Physician, Department of Psychiatry
University of California, Irvine
Local Society: Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum
Irvine, CA, USA
Paper Title: Cosmetic Drugs for Mental Makeovers: Antidepressants and Our Discontents
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Timur Kuran
Professor of Economics and Law
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paper Title: Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East: Exploring the Role of Islamic Law
Saturday June 3, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 in Hall of Flags
Javier Leach
Professor, School of Computing, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Director of the Science, Technology, and Religion Chair, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Local Society: Cátedra Ciencia Tecnología y Religión LSI
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Unity and Diversity of Knowledge
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Javier Leach, et al.
Professor, School of Computing, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Director of the Science, Technology and Religion Chair, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Local Society: Cátedra Ciencia Tecnología y Religión LSI
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Human Evolution - Script for Research Project to be carried out by the LSI and the Iberia-Network in Spain
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
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Lundy Lewis
Professor, Department of Information Technology
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH, USA
Paper Title: Representations of the Brain and the Mind in Computer Science: Is There Room for Religious Concepts?
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Markus-Ekkehard Locker
Associate Professor, Department of Theology, Loyola School of the Humanities
Ateneo de Manila University
Local Society: GeoChris Institute for Ecozoic Spirituality
Manila, Philippines
Paper Title: Reviving Paradoxes: Transclassical Systems Theory as Meta-theory for a Science-Faith Dialogue
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Farzad Mahootian
Shepherd University
Local Society: The Nexus of Science and Spirit
Shepherdstown, WV, USA
Paper Title: Daoism, Time, and Divination
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Theodore Malloch
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Roosevelt Group
President, Spiritual Enterprise Institute
Queenstown, MD, USA
Saturday June 3, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Rachel E. Mann and Roberta Culbertson
Mann: Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
Culbertson: Director, Research and Education, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Founding Director, Institute on Violence and Survival
Charlottesville, VA, USA
Paper Title: The Phenomenology of Violence and Imaginal Portals to Healing: Combining Academic and Indigenous Perspectives to Promote Community Healing from Violence and Oppression
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Peter Markus
Director, Protestant Academy Iserlohn/Institute for Church and Society
Local Society: Arbeitskreis naturwissenschaft und Theologie (Working Group Science and Theology)
Iserlohn, Germany
Paper Title: New Technologies Must Be Ethically Orientated - Dialogues to Integrate Responsible Dimensions in Nanotechnologies
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Hall of Flags
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Joselet Mathew
Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Department of Zoology
Nirmalagiri College / Kannur University
Local Society: Centre for Science and Religion at Nirmalagiri College
Kerala, India
Paper Title: Human Cloning: Bioethical & Theological Perspectives
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Hugh T. McElwain
Professor of Theology, Department of Theology, College of Arts and Sciences
Dominican University
River Forest, IL, USA
Paper Title: A Metaphysics of the Future: Theology and Science, Partners in Dialogue
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Franklin
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The Very Reverend Prof. Dr. Gordon McPhate
Professor, Institute of Religion and the Biosciences, Department of Theology, University of Chester
Dean, Chester Cathedral
Local Society: Centre for Religion and the Biosciences
Chester, England
Paper Title: Spinoza Meets Descartes: Ensoulment Revised in Response to Genetics, Neuroscience, and Out-of-Body Experiences
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Ted Metzler
Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Religion, Oklahoma City University
and Program Coordinator, GOOD STAR
Local Society: GOOD STAR (Growing Open Oklahoma Dialogue in Science, Technology, and Religion)
Oklahoma City, OK, USA
Paper Title: Don’t Blame Me: I’m Just a Robot!
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Sardar Hasan Akhtar Mokal
Minister, Management & Professional Development, Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Local Society: SEARCH (Science Education and Religious Communication House)
Lahore, Pakistan
Paper Title: Permanence and Change: Ijtihad: The Road to Spiritual Democracy
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
Frank Mosca
Clinician, Life Coach and Adjunct Professor at several universities
Hampton Bays, NY, USA
Paper Title: Seeking the Third Happiness through Godbuilding and Immortality: Is There a Place for God or a God Equivalent in Science?
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Franklin
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Nancey Murphy
Professor of Christian Philosophy
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, CA, USA
Paper Title: Is there a place for God in religious experience?
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
Meera Nanda
Independent Scholar
Paper Title: Neo-Hindu Scientism: Strategies and dangers
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
Andrew Newberg
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Paper Title: Why We Believe What We Believe: How Beliefs Emerge from the Brain
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
Gregor Nickel
Professor of Mathematics
University of Siegen
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Philosophy, Mathematics and Theology Group (PhiMaTh)
Tübingen, Germany
Paper Title: The Mathematical Theory of Motion as a Paradigm for Interpolating Change and Continuity
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Marie Vejrup Nielsen
Ph.D. Scholar, Faculty of Theology
University of Aarhus
Local Society: Forum Teologi Naturvidenskab (The Danish Science -Theology Forum)
Aarhus, Denmark
Paper Title: Narratives of Human Nature - a New Approach to Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Michael Ntabo Mabururu
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies,
Moi University
Local Society: Local Society: Dialogue in Religion and Science (DRS) Group
Eldoret, Kenya
Paper Title: Consistence and Variation in the Religion-Science Relationship: An Analytical Perspective
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Ronald L. Numbers
Hilldale Professor of History of Science and Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Local Society: Isthmus Society - Dialogue among Religions and Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA
Paper Title: The Intellectual Origins of Intelligent Design
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Raymond Ogunade
Department of Religions
University of Ilorin
Local Society: Nigerian Association for the Study and Teaching of Religion and the Natural Sciences
Ilorin, Nigeria
Paper Title: Spirituality and Human Flourishing Among the Yoruba
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Thomas Jay Oord
Professor of Theology and Philosophy
Northwest Nazarene University
Local Society: Treasure Valley Science-Religion Institute
Nampa, ID, USA
Paper Title: Science and the Core Doctrines of Process Relational Theology
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Makarand Paranjape
Chair, Centre for English Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Local Society: Science and Religion: The Delhi Dialogues
New Delhi, India
Paper Title: Science, Spirituality and the Creation of Indian Modernity
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Fr. Rafael Pascual
Director, Science and Faith Diploma Program
Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Rome, Italy
Paper Title: Is Intelligent Design a Scientific Alternative to Evolution?
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Andrey N. Pavlenko
Department of Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy
Russian Academy of Sciences
Local Society: God’s Design in Human’s Presentations
Moscow, Russia
Paper Title: The Bible and Chaotic Cosmology
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Chris Peterson and Nan-Sook Park
Peterson: Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Park: Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI, USA
Paper Title: Strengths and Virtues: Theory and Research
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
Zlatica Plasienkova
Department of Philosophy and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy
Comenius University in Bratislava
Local Society: Dialogue on Science and Religion Workshops Organized for Natural Sciences, Philosophy, and Theology
Bratislava, Slovakia
Paper Title: Teilhard's Evolutionary Theory from Spiritual and Ecological Perspectives: New Challenges for the Dialogue in Science and Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Roberto Poli
Professor of Ethics, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, and Mitteleuropa Foundation
Local Society: (Sophia Europa) Central-European Perspectives on Causality and Motivation
Bolzano, Italy
Paper Title: Steps Towards a Synthetic Methodology
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Margaret Poloma
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
University of Akron
Akron, OH, USA
Paper Title: With Tongues of Men and Angels: Pentecostal Love and Faith Based Ministry
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
Stephen Post
Professor
Department of Bioethics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH, USA
Paper Title: The Agent of Unselfish Love
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
Premana W. Premadi
Department of Astronomy
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Local Society: Bandung Society for Cosmology and Religion
Bandung, Indonesia
Paper Title: Dialogue between Science and Religion in Indonesia: A Preliminary Assessment through the Eyes of an Infant Forum
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Joel Primack
Professor of Physics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Paper Title: A New World View from Modern Cosmology
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
Colin Purrington
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA, USA
Paper Title: Evolution Is for Kids
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Robert Putnam
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Saturday June 3, 2006 from 7:30 - 9:30 in Hall of Flags
Varadaraja V. Raman
Professor Emeritus of Physics and Humanities
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY, USA
Paper Title: Changing Views on Science in a Multicultural World (Hindu framework)
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
Inmaculada Ramos-Lerate
Group Head, ALBA Synchrotron Laboratory
Local Society: Theology-Science Seminar (STIC), Universitat Autónoma of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Paper Title: From a Quantum Universe to Saint Teresa de Jesús
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Franklin
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Patricia Rehm
Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Philosophisches Seminar, Arbeitsbereich Praktische Philosophie
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Local Society: BIOS - Grenzfragen des Leben
Mainz, Germany
Paper Title: Why studying sciences opens to religion? The concept of attention and beauty in Simone Weil’s philosophy
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Godfrey Roberts
Master Teacher of Science, Paul McGhee Division
New York University
New York, NY, USA
Paper Title: Hunger, Poverty and HIV/AIDS: The Responsibility of the Affluent
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Jairo Roldán
Professor, Departamento de Física, Universidad del Valle
Ciudad Universitaria de Melendez
Cali, Colombia
Paper Title: Complementarity between Science and Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Class of ’49
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Norbert Samuelson
Chair, Jewish Studies
Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA
Paper Title: Science and Intelligent Design
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Glenn R. Sauer
Associate Professor of Biology
Fairfield University
Local Society: Ignatian Residential College Local Society
Fairfield, CT, USA
Paper Title: Building Programmatic Versatility into Courses in Science and Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Thomas J. Schärtl
Department of Catholic Theology
University of Muenster
Local Society: Animal Consciousness, Philosophy of Mind, and Process Theology
Muenster, Germany
Paper Title: God’s Relation to the World: The Challenge of Theodicy and the Task of Clarifying the Concept of God
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Hall of Flags
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Jeffrey P. Schloss
Professor of Biology
Westmont College
Local Society: Cohering via Co-hearing: Conversations in Science and Religion
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Paper Title: The Surety of Ambiguity
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Hall of Flags
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
Martin Seligman
Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
Bülent Senay
Associate Professor of Comparative Religion
Uludağ University
Local Society: Bursa Local Society Initiative
Bursa, Turkey
Paper Title: Quovadis Technopolis?: Holistic Knowledge and the Hierarchy of Sciences in Islamic Hermeneutics
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Eugène R. Sensenig-Dabbous
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science (FPSPAD), Notre Dame University and Institute for Social, Religious and Civil Society Studies (ISORCS)
Local Society: Notre Dame University, Lebanon (NDU) Communio Study Circle
Zouk Mikael, Lebanon
Paper Title: Religion and Faith: Categories in the Social Sciences
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Franklin
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Adam Shapiro
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Paper Title: Viewing the Scopes Trial in the History of Education
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 11:00AM - 12:30PM in Bodek
T. D. Singh
International Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute and
President, Vedanta and Science Educational Research Foundation
Local Society: Bhaktivedanta Institute’s Science and Religion Group of Kolkata
Kolkata, India
Paper Title: Vedantic Perspectives on Bioethical Questions
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
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James K.A. Smith
Department of Philosophy
Calvin College
Local Society: Calvin College Initiative for the Study of Christianity and Science
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
Paper Title: Introducing Radical Orthodoxy to the Science/Religion Conversation
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Dirk Solies
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Practical Philosophy
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Local Society: BIOS - Grenzfragen des Leben
Mainz, Germany
Paper Title: How the metaphysical need ("metaphysisches Bedürfnis") outlasted reductionism: On a methodical controversy between philosophy and the life sciences in Germany's 19th century
Monday June 5, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Bodek
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Glenn Statile
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
Saint John’s University
Local Society: Rosalie Rendu Roundtable
Jamaica, NY, USA
Paper Title: The Cosmic and the Comic: Einstein’s Scientific Spirituality
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Magda Stavinschi; Gelu Calina; and Radu Constantinescu
Stavinschi: Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy
Calina: Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Craiova
Constantinescu: University of Craiova
Local Society: (Stavinschi and Calina): Association for the Dialogue Between Science and Theology, Romania (ADSTR); (Calina and Constantinescu): CDST Dialogues on Technological Pollution (A Sensitive Spirit in a Technological World)
Bucharest and Craiova, Romania
Paper Title: Tradition and Crises in the Relationship between Religion and Science in Romania
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Mihály Tóth
Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Local Society: 3 Cultures Group
Budapest, Hungary
Paper Title: Voices in the Wilderness - This Side and Beyond the Science-Religion Dialogue in Hungary
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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Mustafa Tabanli
Researcher
Everest Productions
Somerset, NJ, USA
Paper Title: A Brief Study on Contemporary and Traditional Key Concepts in Natural Theology: Self, Emergence, Contextual Meaning and Letter Meaning
Monday June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Bodek
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George Vaillant
Professor of Psychology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, USA
Paper Title: Cognitive and Faith Development
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in Class of ’49
Arturo Villanueva and Eugenio Urrutia
Villanueva: Professor, Humanities Department, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Urrutia: Research Director, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla and Founding Director CECIR
Local Society: Centro de Estudios de Ciencia y Religion (CECIR)
Puebla, Mexico
Paper Title: Dialogue between Science and Religion: A Virtual Experience
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Bodek
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Peter Volek and Pavol Labuda
Volek and Labuda: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy
Catholic University in Ružomberok
Local Society: (Volek and Labuda) Science-Religion Dialog and Critical Thinking; (Labuda) Polylogos
Ružomberok, Slovakia
Paper Title: On the Role of Different Types of Metaphysics in Science - Religion Dialog
Monday June 5, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Franklin
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Nikolaus von Stillfried and Harald Walach
von Stillfried: MSc, cand. PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany
Walach: Research Professor, University of Northampton, UK, School of Social Sciences and
Samueli Insitute, European Office
Local Society: Section for the Evaluation of Complementary Medicine
Freiburg, Germany
Paper Title: Living in the Paradox: The Complementarity Principle in Science and Religion
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Class of ’49
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Jianping Wang
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Shanghai Normal University
Local Society: Workshop of Science and Religion
Shanghai, China
Paper Title: Discourse of Hygiene in Islam: Response of the Muslims in China to SARS Event
Monday, June 5, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM in Class of ’49
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Gerd C. Weckwerth
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
University at Cologne
Local Society: Naturwissenschaft und Glaube e.V. (Society of Natural Science and Religious Belief)
Köln, Germany
Paper Title: Can Evolution Be Wanted? - The Role of Chance in an Evolution Based Creation
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Bodek
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Margaret M. Yee
St. Cross College, Oxford and Associate Director, Ian Ramsey Centre
Local Society: Nature, Intentionality and Finality - Oxford Group
Oxford, United Kingdom
Paper Title: The Creation of Life - Theology in a Science-World
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Bodek
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Amos Yong
Associate Research Professor of Theology
Regent University School of Divinity
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Paper Title: Science and Spirit: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
Sunday June 4, 2006 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM in Class of ’49
Zhou Zhongzhi
Professor, The College of Law and Politics
Shanghai Normal University
Local Society: Workshop in Religion and Science
Shanghai, China
Paper Title: The Significance of Taoist Ethical Thought in the Building of a Harmonious Society
Tuesday June 6, 2006 from 9:00 - 10:30 AM in Franklin
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