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Three Breakthroughs in STARS Research: A Two-Day Event Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Religion

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Tuesday, April 23rd 2019, 12:00am
Friday, and Saturday, April 23-24, 2010 Three Breakthroughs in STARS Research: A Two-Day Event Exploring the Frontiers of Science and Religion Are we alone in the universe? How the search for ET can, and should be, ramped up. How complex life evolved by interpreting its environment and how that ability offers humans an openness to its 'environment,' the transcendent. What neuroscience can teach us about human values and their transcendent source. "Humanity stands at the crossroads of destiny. STARS is the most exciting initiative yet on confronting the challenge of who we are and how we...
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J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Thomas F. Tracy

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Saturday, October 15th 2016, 12:00am
Friday, and Saturday, October 15-16, 2010 J.K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Thomas F. Tracy Friday, October 15, 2010, 7pm Public Forum: When we Say that God Acts, What Do We Think God Does?, with Thomas F. Tracy Tucson Common Room, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 2451 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA (Adjacent to Courtyard accessed through parking lot at the intersection of Le Conte and Euclid) The idea that God acts purposefully in creating, sustaining, and governing the world is deeply embedded in the monotheistic faiths. The sacred texts of these traditions include...
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J.K. Russell Research Conference, "Scientific Vetoes and the “Hands-off” God: Can We Say that God Acts In History?" with Thomas F. Tracy

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Sunday, October 16th 2016, 12:00pm
J.K. Russell Research Conference, "Scientific Vetoes and the “Hands-off” God: Can We Say that God Acts In History?" with Thomas F. Tracy The idea of special divine action has been notoriously problematic in modern theology. Two difficulties in particular have dominated discussion. First, it has been commonplace to contend that this idea runs fatally afoul of the natural sciences. Second, it is widely thought that if we affirm that God acts on particular occasions to shape the course of events in the world, then the problem of evil is made even more difficult. We seem to face an unhappy trade...
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"Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution" by Karl Giberson, Public Forum & Book Launch.

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Saturday, February 6th 2016, 12:00am
"Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution" by Karl Giberson, Public Forum & Book Launch. Karl Giberson was raised in a fundamentalist parsonage and entered college in 1975 intending to become a creation scientist and join the fight against evolution. While studying science at college he became convinced that evolution was true and, with much struggle and angst, abandoned his childhood belief in creationism. Karl's personal story mirrors that of America in the decades since Darwinism came ashore and challenged the country's traditional creation story. Saving Darwin is...
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J. K. Russell Research Conference, Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion, with Francisco J. Ayala

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Monday, April 4th 2016, 12:00am
The 2008-2009 J. K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Dr. Francisco Ayala: Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion -- Celebrating the Darwin Year 2009 Saturday, April 4, 2009 J. K. Russell Research Conference, Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion, with Francisco J. Ayala With militant atheists claiming that evolutionary biology disproves God and with creation scientists and theorists of Intelligent Design challenging the omission of God in neo-Darwinian biology, is there a robust alternative that takes evolution seriously and places it within a credible and persuasive...
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J. K. Russell Fellow's Public Forum, Whence Morality: Biology or Religion?

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Thursday, April 7th 2016, 7:00pm
J. K. Russell Fellow's Public Forum, Whence Morality: Biology or Religion? Classroom 1 of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (Free and open to the public) How much about human nature is not only rooted in our evolutionary past but fully determined by purely biological processes? Our capacity for reasoning seems to be an adaptive feature that evolved as a consequence of natural selection, but what about our moral and ethical faculties? Contrary to reductionists who argue that our moral codes are merely evolutionary byproducts with no grounding in the transcendent, Dr. Ayala has...
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Korean Institute for Advance Theological Studies/KSA/CTNS Joint Conference

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Monday, February 8th 2016, 8:00am
Korean Institute for Advance Theological Studies/KSA/CTNS Joint Conference Ted Peters, “Do Atheists Have a Patent on Science?” Robert John Russell, “Does the God Who Acts Really Act?” Koo Dong Yun, “The Ontology of Soul in View of Recent Stem Cell Controversies” Tae Il Bae, “The Concept of Time in Modern Physics and Theology”
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Public Forum, with Whitney Bauman, "God:Creation::Culture:Nature: Challenging the Logic of Domination in Creatio Ex Nihilo"

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Friday, February 19th 2016, 7:00pm
Public Forum, with Whitney Bauman, "God:Creation::Culture:Nature: Challenging the Logic of Domination in Creatio Ex Nihilo" This lecture argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a “logic of domination” toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine Keller and feminist philosopher of the environment Val Plumwood, this lecture argues that the concept of creation out of nothing materializes in the world throughout different periods in the history of the Christian West: From the...
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2008 J. K. Russell Fellowship with Dr. George V. Coyne, S.J.

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Tuesday, March 15th 2016, 9:30am
2008 J. K. Russell Fellowship with Dr. George V. Coyne, S.J. Saturday, March 15, 2008, 9:30am-5pm J.K. Russell Research Conference, “Twenty Years After the New View from Rome: Pope John Paul II on Science and Religion” Richard S. Dinner Board Room, Graduate Theological Union Library (Hewlett) When the adventure of exploration, which I wish to summarize here, began I was privileged to be a party to it and, in fact, wrote the Preface to the book, Physics, Philosophy and Theology: A Common Quest for Understanding (PPT), whose publication became the inspiration and the guiding beacon for the...
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J. K. Russell Fellow’s Public Forum, "Dance of the Fertile Universe", with George V. Coyne, S.J. Co-Sponsored with Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (JSTB).

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Friday, March 18th 2016, 7:00pm
J. K. Russell Fellow’s Public Forum, "Dance of the Fertile Universe", with George V. Coyne, S.J. Co-Sponsored with Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (JSTB). Did we come about by chance or by necessity in the evolving universe? Did God make us? Can we conclude that there is an Intelligent Design to the universe? To what extent can the natural sciences address these questions? As to chance or necessity the first thing to be said is that the problem is not formulated correctly. It is not just a question of chance or necessity because, first of all, it is both. Furthermore, there is a third...
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Public Forum and Book Launch Lecture for The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil, by Dr. Christopher Southgate

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Saturday, September 10th 2016, 7:00pm
Public Forum and Book Launch Lecture for The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution, and the Problem of Evil, by Dr. Christopher Southgate GTU Board Room Pain, suffering and extinction are intrinsic to the evolutionary process. In this book Christopher Southgate shows how the world that is "very good" is also "groaning in travail" and subjected by God to that travail. Southgate then evaluates several attempts at evolutionary theodicy and argues for his own approach--an approach that takes full account of God's self-emptying and human beings' special responsibilities as created co-creators.
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CTNS Public Forum with Professor LeRon Shults, on his book, Christology and Science, with a response by Professor Robert Russell

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Saturday, November 5th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum with Professor LeRon Shults, on his book, Christology and Science, with a response by Professor Robert Russell The dialogue between theology and science has blossomed in recent decades, but particular beliefs about Jesus Christ have not often been brought to the forefront of this interdisciplinary discussion even in explicitly Christian contexts. In this lecture, F. LeRon Shults discusses his book Christology and Science (2008), which attempts to break new ground by explicitly bringing the specific themes of Christology into dialogue with contemporary science. He engages...
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The 2007 J. K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Celia Deane- Drummond, University of Chester, March 24-31, 2007

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Thursday, March 31st 2016, 9:00am
The 2007 J. K. Russell Fellowship in Religion and Science with Celia Deane- Drummond, University of Chester, March 24-31, 2007 Saturday, March 31, 2007, 9:00am-4:30pm The J. K. Russell Fellowship Research Conference, "The Evolution of Sin and the Redemption of Nature" Location: Pacific School of Religion, Mudd 103 Drawing on animal ethographic studies, this lecture considers the possibility of a form of morality existing in animals and its relationship with human morality. Given this capacity, I argue that first we need to reflect more carefully on human sin and evil in evolutionary terms...
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J. K. Russell Fellowship Forum, Genetic Futures and our Search for Wisdom, with Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond

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Monday, March 28th 2016, 8:00pm
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 7pm J. K. Russell Fellowship Forum, Genetic Futures and our Search for Wisdom, with Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond Lecture and Discussion Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley, CA This lecture begins with an overview of the meteoric rise in genetic science over the last half century. The potential impact on all life forms—from microbes to humans--is enormous. The medical applications of genetic science sit uneasily in the shadow of eugenic practices of the last century. Geneticists are more modest today about the evolutionary potential...
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Book Launch & Reception Anticipating Omega by Ted Peters

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Tuesday, April 19th 2016, 5:00pm
Thursday, April 19, 2007, 5pm Book Launch & Reception Anticipating Omega by Ted Peters Anticipating Omega is a work of constructive theology that takes into the theological enterprise the findings of the latest research in the natural sciences. Ted Peters asks how the eschatological vision of God’s ultimate future (omega) fits on a map of reality along with physics, evolutionary biology, genetics, and technical prognostications for a post-human future. He formulates a unique theory providing a retroactive ontology of the future in an attempt to understand today’s world in light of tomorrow’...
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CTNS Public Forum, "Divine Action, Natural Science, and the Problem of Evil" with Thomas Tracy Visiting Scholar from Bates College

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Monday, April 25th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum, "Divine Action, Natural Science, and the Problem of Evil" with Thomas Tracy Visiting Scholar from Bates College “The affirmation that God acts in the world is at the center of the dramatic scriptural narratives that have shaped Jewish and Christian theological reflection for millennia, and it is embedded in the liturgy, preaching, and prayer of the communities that live out these traditions today. Theologians in the modern era, however, have persistently found themselves stumbling over this idea, uncertain about what to make of it. These misgivings have many sources, two...
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CTNS Public Forum, "Challenging Free Will: Emergentism as a Viable Metaphysics", with Dr. James Haag

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Sunday, October 30th 2016, 7:00pm
CTNS Public Forum, "Challenging Free Will: Emergentism as a Viable Metaphysics", with Dr. James Haag Respondent: Terrence Deacon, University of California, Berkeley Dinner Board Room, GTU Library This lecture presents material completed for Dr. Haag’s recent dissertation. Two theses in the dissertation will be elaborated: 1) Emergentism, by occupying the gap between Reductive Physicalism and Substance Dualism, provides for a viable metaphysics, 2) Emergentism, by expanding our notions of causation, provides a space for free will to be both experientially balanced and evidentially accurate...
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CTNS/GTU Conference and Celebration; Assessing the Work of Robert John Russell: "God’s Action in Nature’s World: Creative Mutual Interaction from Alpha to Omega" and Celebrating the public Campaign for the Ian G. Barbour Chair in Theology and Science.

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Thursday, December 8th 2016, 1:00pm
Saturday, December 8, 2007, 1-5pm CTNS/GTU Conference and Celebration; Assessing the Work of Robert John Russell: "God’s Action in Nature’s World: Creative Mutual Interaction from Alpha to Omega" and Celebrating the public Campaign for the Ian G. Barbour Chair in Theology and Science. Graduate Theological Union, Richard S. Dinner Board Room, GTU Library For more than twenty-five years, Robert John Russell has been engaged in research and teaching focused on the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences. To celebrate the forthcoming publication of his new book,...
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CTNS/KIATS Conference

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Wednesday, February 24th 2016, 12:00am
CTNS/KIATS Conference Robert John Russell, Cosmology and Theology: Humanity's Role in the Universe Ted Peters, The Cloning and Stem Cell Controversies: A Theological Perspective, with response by Tae II Bai Koo-Dong Yoon, Theological Response to Woo Suk Hwang's First Clone of Human Embryo JaeHyun Kim, Summary Report of Korean Seminars and Questions for further discussion
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