Upcoming Events

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February
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Feb
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2023}

2023 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

_{The Center for Science and Culture
Date
February
02
Feb
17
17
2023
Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, TX}

How has Christianity contributed to the rise of modern science? What do the latest scientific discoveries tell us about the existence of God? Explore these questions, and more, at Discovery Institute’s 5th-annual Dallas Conference on Science & Faith.

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June
06
Jun
1
01
2023}

Conference on Engineering in Living Systems

_{John Felts
Date
June
06
Jun
1
01
2023
Camp Copass
Denton, TX}

CELS 2021 brings together leading engineers and biologists in order to: (1) apply engineering principles to better understand biological systems, (2) craft a design-based theoretical framework that explains and predicts the behaviors of living systems, and (3) develop research programs that demonstrate the engineering principles at work in living systems.

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June
06
Jun
26
26
2023}

C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society

_{The Center for Science and Culture
Date
June
06
Jun
26
26
2023
Glen Eyrie
Colorado Springs, CO}

The C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society will explore the growing impact of science on politics, economics, social policy, bioethics, theology, and the arts during the past century. The program is named after celebrated British writer C.S. Lewis, a perceptive critic of both scientism and technocracy in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength. Topics to be addressed include the history of science, the relationship between faith and science, the rise of scientific materialism, the debate over Darwinian theory and intelligent design, evolutionary conceptions of ethics, science and economics, science and criminal justice, stem cell research and abortion, eugenics, family life and sexuality, ecology and animal rights, climate …

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June
06
Jun
26
26
2023}

Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences

_{The Center for Science and Culture
Date
June
06
Jun
26
26
2023
Colorado Springs, CO
Colorado Springs, CO}

The CSC Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences will prepare students to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design (ID). The seminar will explore cutting-edge ID work in fields such as molecular biology, biochemistry, embryology, developmental biology, paleontology, computational biology, ID-theoretic mathematics, cosmology, physics, and the history and philosophy of science. The seminar will include presentations on the application of intelligent design to laboratory research as well as frank treatment of the academic realities that ID researchers confront in graduate school and beyond, and strategies for dealing with them. Although the primary focus of the seminar is science, there also will be discussion on worldview …

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July
07
Jul
13
13
2023}

International Seminar on Intelligent Design

_{The Center for Science and Culture
Date
July
07
Jul
13
13
2023
Dallas, TX
Online Event}

Historically, the Summer Seminar program organized by the Center for Science & Culture has included two seminars offered concurrently: the Seminar on Intelligent Design in the Natural Sciences, designed for students and professionals in the natural sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and the C.S. Lewis Fellows Program on Science and Society, designed primarily for students and professionals in the humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. In the past, we have held these programs in person and participants have joined us from all over the world. Due to the volatility and uncertainty of international travel, however, we have decided to reserve the above seminars for U.S. participants and instead offer a third program combining both tracks described …