Conference Schedule
Thursday, November 3, 2005
3:00pm Registration
6:00pm Dinner*
7:30pm Conference Greetings and Overview, Opening Plenary
Michael Murray, Evolutionary Accounts of Religion: Explaining and Explaining Away
Reception to follow
Friday, November 4, 2005
9:00am Plenary Session 2: Nature of Religion
Justin L. Barrett, Why Would Anyone Believe in God? An Introduction to the Cognitive Science of Religion
10:15am Break
10:30am Concurrent Sessions 1A: Nature of Religion
Raymond J. VanArragon, Naturalistic Explanations of Religious Experience
Jitse M. van der Meer, Biology of Moral Behavior: Fact and Fiction
10:30am Concurrent Sessions 1B: Theology of Nature
David Vander Laan, Evolution and the Fall
John T. Mullen, Can Evolutionary Biology Confirm Original Sin?
12:15pm Lunch*
1:30pm Plenary Session 3: Nature of Religion
Dominic Johnson, Hand of God, Mind of Man: Supernatural Agency and Cognition in Human Evolution
2:45pm Break
3:00pm Concurrent Sessions 2A: Nature of Religion
James P. Hurd, Religious Deception: Is It Adaptive?
Tim Morris,
David Sloan Wilson's Group Selection Theory of Religion and the Question of Christ and Culture
3:00pm Concurrent Sessions 2B: Theology of Nature
Joseph LaPorte, How to be a Darwinian Christian
Donald L. Cronkite, Making the Doctrine of Creation Whole: Poetic Contradiction in a Land of Prose
Free Time
6:00pm Dinner*
7:30pm Plenary Session 4: Theology of Nature
John F. Haught, Religion, Intelligence and Evolutionary Explanation
Open Exchange with Day's Plenary Speakers
Reception to follow
Saturday, November 5, 2005
9:00am Plenary Session 5: Nature of Science
Del Ratzsch, Humanness in Their Hearts: Where Science & Religion Fuse
10:15am Break
10:30am Concurrent Sessions 3A: Cognate Disciplines
Bruce Gordon, Quantum Indeterminacy, Evolutionary Directionality, and Theistic Metaphysics
William Struthers, The Neurobiology of the Relationship-Oriented Mind
10:30am Concurrent Sessions 3B: Teleology
Robert Waltzer, Function in Biology: Its Meaning, Foundation, and Relationship to Design and Evolutionary Explanation
Ralph F. Stearley, Teleological and antiteleological presentations of the history of life
12:15pm Lunch*
1:30pm Plenary Session 6: Nature of Science
Alvin Plantinga, Evolutionary Psychology and Scripture Scholarship: More Similar than you Might have Thought
2:45pm Break
3:15pm Concluding Plenary
Charles Taliaferro, Descriptions and Explanations: Some Lessons from the Cambridge Platonists
Open Exchange with Day's Plenary Speakers
Free Time
6:30pm Dinner*
*meals are available for those that selected "with meals" on the registration form.
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