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The Alexandrian Old Town Alexandria

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19th Annual Insiders Briefing on Intelligent Design

_{Private event for members of the Discovery Society}

As of 7/19/2023, we have reached maximum capacity for the Insiders Briefing and have released our remaining room block. We are no longer accepting names for the waitlist.

Discovery Society members are invited to join us for the 19^th Annual Insiders Briefing on Intelligent Design: The Bible and Science in the Nation’s Capital. The event will begin the morning of August 11 and runs through the evening of August 12.

Many of the sessions will be held at The Westin Alexandria Old Town, and we will venture to Washington, DC to explore the Bible’s impact on the rise of science and visit the new exhibit, “Scripture and Science: Our Universe, Ourselves, Our Place,” at the Museum of the Bible. We will also visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and several monuments in the Nation’s capital. In addition to learning about the latest science, participants will also get Insider updates on our accomplishments and sneak peeks at upcoming projects. As always, this event will allow participants to rub shoulders with Discovery Institute leaders, CSC Fellows and staff, as well as network with other ID enthusiasts.

This is a private, invitation-only event for members of the Discovery Society and their guests. Members of the Discovery Society will receive a code by email or mail, allowing them to register for the event at the regular price ($600), or a discounted rate depending upon donor level.

Cost of the conference will include all meals on Friday/Saturday, transportation for the DC excursions, and other conference materials. Hotel accommodations are the responsibility of registrants; the room rate in our hotel block is $189 per night for a double/double, king, or suite room.

The tentative schedule is linked below. The cost to attend the two-day conference is $600 per person and includes six conference meals, materials, admission to the Museum of the Bible, and transportation from our Alexandria hotel to Washington DC events. Registration and discount codes have been mailed and/or emailed to eligible Discovery Society members. If you are unable to locate your code, please contact Andrea Waggoner.

Current Schedule

When

Friday, August 11, 2023, 10:00 AM – 9:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2023, 8:00 AM – 9:30 PM

Where

The Westin Alexandria
400 Courthouse Square
Alexandria, VA 22314

Registration

Registration is now closed. Stay tuned for details regarding the 2024 Insiders Briefing.

Contact

Andrea Waggoner
awaggoner@discovery.org
206-826-5539

Hotel Information

As of 7/19/2023, we have reached maximum capacity for the Insiders Briefing and have released our remaining room block. We are no longer accepting names for the waitlist.

The Westin Alexandria (Old Town)

The Westin Alexandria
400 Courthouse Square
Alexandria, VA 22314

Our sessions will be held at The Westin Alexandria, located just 1.8 miles away from the historic waterfront district of Alexandria, VA. You’ll find beauty along the cobblestone streets and red brick sidewalks in Old Town Alexandria, home to specialty shops, boutiques, and museums. Just across the Potomac River, you can seamlessly discover first-class attractions at National Harbor and Washington, DC

The rate for our room block is $189 for a double/double or king room. In order to guarantee this price range, you must book your room by July 19, 2023.

We have a guaranteed room block from August 10 to August 13. However, our room rate may be honored for three days before and after our conference if there is room availability.

NOTE: If you utilize Marriott Bonvoy points or other travel club points to book your room outside of our room block, please notify us so that we can ask that your reservation be counted toward fulfillment of our room block.

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Speakers

William A. Dembski

_{Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

A mathematician and philosopher, Bill Dembski is the author/editor of more than 25 books as well as the writer of peer-reviewed articles spanning mathematics, engineering, biology, philosophy, and theology. With doctorates in mathematics (University of Chicago) and philosophy (University of Illinois at Chicago), Bill is an active researcher in the field of intelligent design. But he is also a tech entrepreneur who builds educational software and websites, exploring how education can help to advance human freedom with the aid of technology.

Marcos Nogueira Eberlin

_{Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Marcos Eberlin received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and served as a postdoc at Purdue University. Back at UNICAMP, he founded and coordinated for 25 years the ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry (MS) Laboratory, making it an internationally recognized research center, one of the best-equipped and innovative MS laboratories worldwide. Eberlin has published nearly 1,000 scientific articles and is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the title of Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2005) from Brazil’s President, the Zeferino Vaz Award (2002) for excellence in teaching and research.

Winston Ewert

_{Senior Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, Software Engineer}

Winston Ewert is a software engineer and intelligent design researcher. He received his PhD from Baylor University in electrical and computer engineering. He specializes in computer simulations of evolution, genomic design patterns, and information theory. A Google alum, he is a Senior Research Scientist at Biologic Institute and a Senior Fellow of the Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence.

Michael Newton Keas

_{Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

After earning a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Oklahoma, Mike Keas won research grants from such organizations as the National Science Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He experienced some of the last historic moments behind the Berlin Wall as a Fulbright scholar in East Germany. Keas serves as lecturer in the history and philosophy of science at Biola University and on the board of directors of Ratio Christi, an alliance of apologetics clubs on college campuses. He has written numerous articles, including “Systematizing the Theoretical Virtues” in the top-tier philosophy journal Synthese. This essay analyzes twelve traits of reputable theories, and has generated dialogue across many fields. With a quarter-century of experience teaching science and its history to college students, Keas is qualified to lay out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom about science and religion departs from reality. He has done so in the ISI book Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion.

Casey Luskin

_{Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

Casey Luskin is a geologist and an attorney with graduate degrees in science and law, giving him expertise in both the scientific and legal dimensions of the debate over evolution. He earned his PhD in Geology from the University of Johannesburg, and BS and MS degrees in Earth Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied evolution extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. His law degree is from the University of San Diego, where he focused his studies on First Amendment law, education law, and environmental law.

Stephen C. Meyer

_{Director, Center for Science and Culture}

Dr. Stephen C. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in the philosophy of science. A former geophysicist and college professor, he now directs the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle. He is author of the New York Times-bestseller Darwin’s Doubt (2013) as well as the book Signature in the Cell (2009) and Return of the God Hypothesis (2021). In 2004, Meyer ignited a firestorm of media and scientific controversy when a biology journal at the Smithsonian Institution published his peer-reviewed scientific article advancing intelligent design. Meyer has been featured on national television and radio programs, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CBS's Sunday Morning, NBC's Nightly News, ABC's World News, Good Morning America, Nightline, FOX News Live, and the Tavis Smiley show on PBS. He has also been featured in two New York Times front-page stories and has garnered attention in other top-national media.

Jay W. Richards

_{Senior Fellow at Discovery, Senior Research Fellow at Heritage Foundation}

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the Executive Editor of The Stream. Richards is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012); The Human Advantage; Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; The Hobbit Party with Jonathan Witt; and Eat, Fast, Feast. His most recent book, with Douglas Axe and William Briggs, is The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe.

Melissa Cain Travis

_{Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

Melissa Cain Travis earned a PhD in Humanities with a philosophy concentration from Faulkner University, an MA in Science and Religion from Biola University, and a BS in Biology from Campbell University. She is the author of Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility (2022), Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God (2018), and a contributor to The Story of the Cosmos: How the Heavens Declare the Glory of God (2019). In addition to teaching graduate courses for Colorado Christian University's Lee Strobel Center, she serves on the Executive Council of the Evangelical Philosophical Society and as President of the Society for Women of Letters. She is part of the core writers team for The Worldview Bulletin and the Christian Research Journal, and regularly lectures at universities, seminaries, and churches around the country.

John G. West

_{Senior Fellow, Managing Director, and Vice President of Discovery Institute}

Dr. John G. West is Vice President of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Seattle Pacific University, West is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker who has written or edited 12 books, including Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, and Walt Disney and Live Action: The Disney Studio’s Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s. His documentary films include Fire-Maker, Revolutionary, The War on Humans, and (most recently) Human Zoos. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University, and he has been interviewed by media outlets such as CNN, Fox News, Reuters, Time magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.