I. Prologue
The Meaning of the Creation
Stories
| January 6 (7:00-7:50
pm) |
A Scientist's Perspective
[Thomas L. Gilbert, physics, ZCRS/LSTC]. |
| January 6 (8:00-8:50
pm) |
A Biblical Scholar's Perspective
[Robert L. Brawley, New Testament, MTS]. |
| January 6 (9:00-9:50
pm) |
A Theologian's Perspective
[Antje Jackelén, Theology, ZCRS/LSTC]. |
II. The Scientific Story of Creation
The Creation of Matter
and Our Physical Environment
| January 13 (7:00-8:20
pm) |
The Origin of It All [Rocky
Kolb, cosmology, UC]. |
| January 13 (8:30-9:50
pm) |
The Story of Creation from
Hydrogen to the Earth [Donald York, astronomy, UC]. |
The Creation of Life and
Our Biological Environment
| January 20 (7:00-8:20
pm) |
The Origin of Life [David
Oxtoby, chemistry, UC]. |
| January 20 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
The Origin of Multicellular
Life [Gayle Woloschak, molecular biology, NU]. |
| January 27 (7:00-8:20
pm) |
Brain Evolution [Philip
Ulinski, neurobiology, UC]. |
| January
27 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
From Miocene Apes to Modern
Humans: An Overview of the Fossil Record of Human Evolution [Fred
Smith, anthropology, LUC]. |
| February
3 (7:00-8:20 pm) |
Biological Evolution from
the Cambrian Explosion to the Appearance of Higher Primates [James Hopson,
biology, UC]. |
The Creation of Humans
and Our Cultural Environment
| February
3 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
The Evolution of Human Minds
[William Calvin, neurobiology, UW]. |
| February 10 (7:00-8:20
pm) |
Precursors of Human Behavior
and Culture as Revealed by Studies of Primates [Paul Heltne, primatology,
CAS]. |
| February
10 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
The Evolution of Culture
from Australopithecines to Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens [William Irons,
anthropology, NU]. |
III. The Biblical Story of Creation
The Old Testament Story
| February
17 (7:00-8:20 pm) |
The Ancient Near-Eastern
Context for Hebrew Ideas of Creation [Bernard Batto, religion, DU]. |
| February
17 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
Old Testament Views of the
World's Beginnings [Theodore Hiebert, Old Testament, MTS]. |
The New Testament Story
| February
24 (7:00-8:20 pm) |
The Greco-Roman Context
for New Testament Ideas of Cosmogony and Cosmography [Edgar Krentz,
New Testament, LSTC (emeritus)] |
| February 24
(8:30-9:50 pm) |
Creation in the New Testament
[Robert Brawley, New Testament, MTS]. |
IV. Theological Reflections
| March
3 (7:00-8:20 pm) |
God Working in the Epic
of Creation [Karl Peters, Religion and Philosophy, RC (emeritus)/ZCRS]. |
| March
3 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
Reconstructing a Christian
Theology of Nature: Prerequisites and False Starts [Anna Case-Winters,
theology, MTS]. |
| March
10 (7:00-8:20 pm) |
Toward a Theology of Nature
[James Moore, theology, VU]. |
| March 10 (8:30-9:50
pm) |
Christ and the Cosmos [Zachary
Hayes O.F.M., theology, CTU]. |
| March 17 (7:00-8:20
pm) |
Interpreting "Salvation"
in the Light of the Epic of Creation [Richard Busse, theology and
law, ZCRS/LSTC]. |
V. Epilogue
| March
17 (8:30-9:50 pm) |
The Epic of
Creation What Does It Mean? [Philip Hefner, theology, ZCRS/LSTC (emeritus)]. |
| Institutional affiliations
are: CAS, Chicago Academy of Science; CTU, Catholic Theological
Union; DU, DePauw University; LSTC, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago;
LUC, Loyola University of Chicago; MTS, McCormick Theological Seminary;
NU, Northwestern University; RC, Rollins College; UC, University of Chicago;
UCB, University of California, Berkeley; VU, Valparaiso University;
ZCRS, Zygon Center for Religion and Science. |
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