Mere Creation:
Reclaiming the Book of Nature
Conference on Design and Origins
Biola University, November 14-17, 1996
Evening Session: Unseating Naturalism
Session Moderator: Sherwood Lingenfelter, Provost, Biola University
| 7:00 | Walter L. Bradley | Nature: Design or Designoid | 8:00 | Jonathan Wells | Unseating Naturalism: Recent Insights from Developmental Biology |
Friday, November 15
Morning Session: Foundations for a Theory of Design
Session Moderator: Phillip Johnson, Law, University of California--Berkeley
| 8:00 | Nancy Pearcey | "You Guys Lost"--Is Design a Closed Issue? | 9:00 | William A. Dembski | Redesigning Science | 10:15 | Stephen C. Meyer | The Explanatory Power of Design: DNA and the Origin of Information | 11:15 | Paul A. Nelson | Applying Design within Biology |
Afternoon Session: Biological Evidence for Design
Session Moderator: Mark Whalon, Biology, Michigan State University
| 1:30 | Michael J. Behe | Molecular Machines and Irreducible Complexity | 2:30 | Siegfried Scherer | Basic Type Biology: An Alternative to Evolutionary Biology | 4:00 | Sigrid Hartwig-Scherer | Apes or Ancestors? Interpretations of the Hominid Fossil Record within Evolutionary and Basic Type Biology | 5:00 | Jeffery Schloss | Of Natural Theology and Natural Theodicy: Evolutionary Accounts of Altruistic Morality and the Quandary of Goodness by Design |
Evening Session: Discussion
Saturday, November 16
Morning Session: Philosophy and Design
Session Moderator: Alvin Plantiga, Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
| 8:00 | J. P. Moreland | The Explanatory Relevance of Libertarian Agency as a Model of Theistic Design | 9:00 | Del Ratzsch | Design, Chance, and Theistic Evolution | 10:15 | John Mark Reynolds | God-of-the-Gaps: Intelligent Design and Bad Apologetic Advice | 11:15 | William Lane Craig | Design and the Cosmological Argument |
Afternoon Session: Design in the Bio-Physical Universe
Session Moderator: Henry Schaefer III, Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia
| 1:30 | Hugh Ross | Big Bang Model Refined by Fire | 2:30 | Robert Kaita | Design in Physics and Biology: 'Cosmological Principle' and 'Cosmological Imperative'? | 4:00 | David Berlinski | Radical Darwinism | 5:00 | Robert Newman | Artificial Life and Cellular Automata |
Evening Session: Discussion
Sunday, November 17
Morning Session: Prospects and Conclusions
| 8:00 | Luder Whitlock | Sermon | 9:00 | Phillip Johnson | Where Do We Go From Here? |
