What Does ‘Made in the Image of God’ Mean?
Marie I. George, Ph.D. (St. John’s University)
The third annual conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists was held on June 7-9, 2019 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, USA. The theme of the conference was “What does it mean to be human?” This included such questions as What is “human nature”? When did it appear? Did Neanderthals and other archaic species of Homo have it? When does an individual human life begin? Can human nature be changed by genetic engineering? In what ways are humans unique on earth? Are we unique in the cosmos? These questions were explored from the point of view of biology, paleoanthropology, philosophy, theology, and other disciplines.
To Look to the Heavens: Galileo on the Potential of the Human MInd
Br. Lawrence Machia, O.S.B. (St. Vincent College)
Will Tissue Engineering Change Human Nature?
Christopher Raub, Ph.D. (Catholic University of America)
The Science behind Ancestry Mapping: what can it tell us about our human nature?
Benjamin Rybicki, Ph.D. (Henry Ford Cancer Institute)
Becoming and Being Human: evidence from the archaeological, fossil and genetic records
Steven J. Mithen, Ph.D. (University of Reading, UK) [Guest Lecture]
Discovering Eifelheim
After-banquet talk by Michael Flynn, author of Eifelheim
Presentation of the 2019 St. Albert Award to Maureen Condic
Human Beings are Defined by Organization
Maureen L. Condic, Ph.D. (University of Utah)
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering: the science and its implications
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., Ph.D. (Providence College)
Evolution and the Eschatological Meaning of Human Nature
Richard Austin Choate (Cambridge University)
Neurobiology of Emotions and the Evidence of Human Interconnectedness
Sonsoles de Lacalle, Ph.D. (Ohio University)
Created in the Image and Likeness of Man
Megan Levis (University of Notre Dame)