CANYON INSTITUTE LECTURE SERIES SPEAKERS AND TITLES

2006-07

Andrew Newberg, MD
          Why We Believe What We Believe

Dr. Lanny D. Schmidt
           Faith and Science and the Book of Job

William B. Hurlbut, MD
          Stem Cells, Embryos and Ethics: Is There a Way Forward?

Dr. Denis O. Lamoureux
           Beyond the 'Evolution vs. Creation' Debate

2005-06

Dr. Peter Flint
          Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the DaVinci Code.

Dr. Eric Kendle
           EMEDS in Iraq; a Flight Surgeon's View of American Redemption in the Global War on Terror

Dr. John Walton
          Reading Genesis 1 with Ancient Eyes: What does it mean to create?

Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
           Beyond Conflict of Science and Religion: The Case of Judaism.

2004-05

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

Dr. Margaret Towne
          Genesis and Evolution: Integration

Dr. Rogier Windhorst
          Genesis and the Big Bang

2003-04

Mr. Charles Roberts
          Historical Christianity and 21st Century Science:
                    The Theology of SS. Augustine and Vincent of Lerins as a Fruitful
                    Way of Reconciling Science and Religion

Dr. Peter Flint
          New Scientific Technologies Reveal the Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dr. Holmes Rolston, III
          Genes, Genesis and God

Dr. Michael Mobley
          Finding a Footing on a Slippery Slope:
                     The Ethics of Embryo Cell Research

Dr. Billy Grassie
          Biocultural Evolution in the 21st Century:
                     The Evolutionary Role of Religion

Dr. Bruce Lundberg
          Conflicts and Confederacies between Mathematics and Christianity:
                     Parables for our Road Ahead in Science and Technology

Dr. Douglas Kelley
          Interpersonal Forgiveness: Forgiving for Life

2002-03

Dr. Gil Stafford Christian
          Higher Education Praxis in a Trinitarian Presence

Dr. Howard Van Till
          Do We Live in a Right Stuff Universe:
                    The Roots of the Design vs. Naturalism Debate

Rev. Dr. George Murphy
          The Cross and Creation

Dr. Jeff Moore
          The Icy Galilean Satellites

Mr. Jim Klemaszewski
          Life and Meaning in the Cosmos

Mr. Surrendra Gangadean
          Origin of the Moral Law

Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne
          Cosmology and Creation

Dr. Bill Williams
          Gaps Matter

2001-02

Rabbi Albert Plotkin,
           Ethics in a Pluralist Society

Dr. David F. Siemens, Jr.
          Ultimate Foundations of Ethics: Beyond Values, Rules and Denial

Dr. Norbert Samuelson,
          Implications of Evolutionary Psychology for Jewish Ethics

Dr. Jeffrie Murphy Vengeance,
          Justice and Forgiveness

Dr. Fred Hickernell
          Treasures of the Sand: God’s Gift in Scripture & Modern Technology

Dr. Mary Puglia/Rev. Carl Alzen
          Revelations of the Human Genome Project

Mr. Charles Roberts
          Isaac Newton: Dissenter and Hermetic Philosopher

Dr. Bill Williams/Mr. Mark Dickerson
          A Mathematical Analogue for a Model of the Trinity