2005-2006 Public Lecture Series

DVD recordings are available for most of the lectures listed.

2005
October 27	Dr. Peter Flint, Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the DaVinci Code.
November 17	Dr. Eric Kendle, EMEDS in Iraq; a Flight Surgeon's View of American Redemption in the Global War on Terror
2006
January 19	Dr. John Walton, Reading Genesis 1 with Ancient Eyes: What does it mean to create?
February 16	Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Beyond Conflict of Science and Religion: The Case of Judaism.
March 16	Mr. Charles Roberts, Plurality of Worlds and Extraterrestrial Life: the Historical, Philosophical and Theological Development of an Ancient Idea".

2004-2005 Public Lecture Series

DVD recordings are available for most of the lectures listed.

2004
	Dr. Peter Flint - THe Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: New Evidence from Ancient Texts.
	Dr. David F. Siemens, Jr. , What Philosophers Don’t Seem to Know about Knowledge
2005
	Dr. Margaret Towne, Genesis and Evolution: Integration
	Dr. Rogier Windhorst, Genesis and the Big Bang

2003-2004 Public Lecture Series

DVD recordings are available for most of the lectures listed.

2003
October 2	Mr. Charles Roberts - Historical Christianity and 21st Century Science – the Theology of St. Augustine and St. Vincent of Lerins as a Fruitful Way of Reconciling Science and Religion.
October 16	Dr. Peter Flint - New Scientific Technologies Reveal the Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
November 17	Dr. Holmes Rolston, III [2003 Templeton Prize Winner] - Genes, Genesis, and God.
2004
January 22	Dr. Michael Mobley - Finding a Footing on a Slippery Slope: An examination of the Ethics of Embryo Cell Research".
February 5	Dr. Billy Grassie - Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century: The Evolutionary Role of Religion
March 25	Dr. Bruce Lundberg - Conflicts and Confederacies between Mathematics and Christianity: Parables for Our Road Ahead In Science and Technology
April 15	Dr. Douglas Kelley - Interpersonal Forgiveness: Forgiving for Life

2002-2003 Public Lectures

DVD recordings are available for most of the lectures listed.

2002
November 7	Dr. Gil Stafford - Christian Higher Education Praxis in a Trinitarian Presence
November 21	Dr. Howard Van Till - Do We Live in a Right Stuff Universe?: The Roots of the Design Vs. Naturalism Debate
2003
January 16	Dr. George Murphy - The Cross and Creation
January 30	Dr. Jeff Moore - The Icy Galilean Satellites
February 20	Mr. Jim Klemaszewski - Life and Meaning in the Cosmos
March 6	Mr. Surrendra Gangadean - Origin of The Moral Law
March 25	Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS - Cosmology and Creation
April 3	Dr. Bill Williams - "Gaps" Matter!

2001-2002 Public Lectures

DVD recordings are available for most of the lectures listed.

2001
Oct. 11	Rabbi Albert Plotkin - Ethics in a Pluralist Society
Oct. 25	David F. Siemens, Jr. - Ultimate Foundation of Ethics
Nov. 8	Dr. Norbert Samuelson - Implication of Evolutionary Psychology for Jewish Ethics
Nov. 29	Dr. Jeffrie Murphy - Vengeance, Justice and Forgiveness
2002
Jan. 31	Dr. Fred Hickernell - A World in a Grain of Sand
March 7	Dr. Mary Puglia and Rev. Carl Alzen - Revelations of the Human Genome Project
April 4	Dr. Charles Roberts - Isaac Newton: Dissenter and Hermetic Philospher
April 11	Dr. Bill Williams and Mr. Mark Dickerson - A Mathematical Analogue for a Model of the Trinity

2000 Naturalism Mini-Conference

Printed proceedings of this conference are available

Canyon Institute's inaugural conference, "Naturalism: Scientific, Religious and Literary Implications," was hosted by the Canyon Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) and sponsored by the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) Science and Religion Course Program (SRCP). This mini-conference was held on the campus of Grand Canyon University on April 8, 2000. The partnership of CIAS and CTNS produced an effectively coordinated and well attended conference.

The keynote address, "The Sacred Cows of Science and Religion Meet" by Dr. George Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory in Rome (and its research branch at the University of Arizona). Dr. Frederick Gregory, Professor of the History of Science at the University of Florida and past president of History of Science Society, covered the long history of the naturalistic view in his paper, "Naturalism's Historical assault on Religion". Dr. Jude Nixon, Associate Professor of English at Oakland University, pursued the cross-traffic between natural science and natural theology, in nineteenth-century British literature in his address,"'I Found Him Not in World or Sun': Darwinianism and the Challenge to Natural Theology in Victorian Literature."

Other distinguished participants included Professor Tom Pagliasotti (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Dr. Aleksandra Gruzinska (Arizona State University), Dr. David Burstein (Arizona State University), and Dr. Leanna Hall (Grand Canyon University).