Science in the Light of the Christian View of the Human Person
Fr. Joachim Ostermann, O.F.M., Ph.D. (Franciscan Friars of Canada)
Talks from our first annual conference, Origins, in April of 2017.
Are Probabilities Essential to Inferring Design?
Robert C. Koons, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)
The Catholic Scientist in the Secular World: What is the meaning of our vocation and how does it distinguish us?
Marisa March, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania)
Why Do We Look at the Heavens?
After-banquet Address by Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J., Ph.D., Director of the Vatican Observatory
The Origin and Evolution of Universes
John D. Barrow, Ph.D. (Univ. of Cambridge): Guest Lecture and Keynote Address
The Origin and Prevalence of Habitable Worlds
Prof. Karin Öberg, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
Georges Lemaître’s Contributions to Cosmology
Robert J. Scherrer, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University)
Medieval Ideas of the Multiverse
J. Christopher Clemens, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina)
To Find God in All Things: Grandeur in an Evolutionary View of Life
Kenneth R. Miller, Ph.D. (Brown University): 2017 St. Albert Award Lecture
Why Only Us: The Origin of Human Language
Robert C. Berwick, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Guest Lecture
The Origin of Evolution: The Interplay of Order and Contingency
Daniel Kuebler, Ph.D. (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
Process Information: A Novel Communication Theory with Applications to Evolutionary Biology
Erick Chastain, Ph.D. (Rutgers University)