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Program & Schedule

Science & Mormonism: Cosmos, Earth, & Man

9 November 2013

Utah Valley Convention Center

Provo, Utah

Presented by The Interpreter Foundation

with contributing support from:

8:30-9:00

Opening Session

Welcome

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Symposium Organizing Committee

Introductory Remarks

Daniel C. Peterson

President, The Interpreter Foundation

Introductory Remarks

Scott Gordon

President, FairMormon

9:00-10:30

Session Chair: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Symposium Organizing Committee

Science vs. Religion: Can This Marriage Be Saved?

David H. Bailey

Berkeley National Laboratory (ret.) and University of California, Davis

Science, Religion, and Agency

Richard N. Williams

Founding Director, The Wheatley Institution, Brigham Young University

The Scale of Creation in Space and Time

John S. Lewis

Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona and Chief Scientist, Deep Space Industries

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Session Chair: David H. Bailey, Symposium Organizing Committee

Joseph Smith and Modern Cosmology

Ron Hellings

Research Professor, Department of Physics, Montana State University

The Outer Solar System: A Window to the Creative Breadth of Divinity

Jani Radebaugh

Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University

12:00-1:00

Lunch Break

1:00-3:00

Session Chair: Jani Radebaugh, Symposium Organizing Committee

From All Eternity to All Eternity: Deep Time and the Gospel

Bart J. Kowallis

Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University

Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God

Amy L. Williams

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University

Science and Genesis: A Personal View

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw

Senior Research Scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)

Why Evolution and LDS Thought are Fully Compatible:

Overcoming our Suspicions of Science

Steven L. Peck

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-5:00

Session Chair: Michael R. Stark, Symposium Organizing Committee

Life Sciences Panel

Michael R. Stark

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology & Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University

Emily Bates

Professor of Pedia