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April 11, 2019

A Midwestern Paleontological Perspective on the Biostratigraphic Record and a Protracted History of Life

Ralph Stearley, Professor of Geology, Calvin College

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January 24, 2019

Why Cosmologists Can’t Stop Talking about God

A.J. Poelarends, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Wheaton College

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November 29, 2018

Understanding Scientific Theories of Origins in Christian Perspective: A Course and a Book

Robert C. Bishop, Stephen O. Moshier, Larry Funck, Raymond J. Lewis (Wheaton College)

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September 13, 2018

The Doctrine of Creation: Understanding Creation from Scripture and Theology

Drs. John H. Walton and Robert C. Bishop (Wheaton College)

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April 10, 2018

Forgotten Figures: How Pastors of the Enlightenment Helped Advance Modern Science

Dr. Jennifer McNutt, Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College

McIntyre Lecture in History and Philosophy of Science

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February 20, 2018

C.S. Lewis and the Case against Evolutionism

Dr. Wayne Martindale, Professor of English Emeritus, Wheaton College

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January 25, 2018

C.S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism

Dr. Jerry Root, Professor of Evangelism, Wheaton College

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October 23, 2017 (McIntyre Lecture at Wheaton College)

Space, the Final (Philosophical) Frontier: Exploring Motifs in the Philosophy of Cosmology

Dr. Elise Crull, The City College of New York

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April 20, 2017

Editing the Genome: Opportunities and Challenges for Christians

Dr.Jeff Hardin, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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January 26, 2017

Relevance Theory and Divine Accommodation in Genesis 1

Dr. John Hilber, Professor of Old Testament, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary

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November 3, 2016

Genesis 1–11, Poetry, History, Science, Truth: Reading Well with Help from CS Lewis

Dr. C. John (“Jack”) Collins, Covenant Theological Seminary

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October 11, 2016

75th Anniversary Dinner

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February 4, 2016

God in Action: A Trinitarian Approach to Creation and Science

Dr. Robert Bishop, McIntyre Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, Wheaton College

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October 6, 2015

Evangelism and Evolution

Dr. S. Joshua Swamidass, Washington University of Saint Louis

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April 13, 2015

Baptizing Dinosaurs: How Once-Suspect Evidence of Evolution Came to Support the Biblical Narrative

Dr. Ronald Numbers, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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March 17, 2015

God in the Laboratory: How Science Enhances Faith

Dr. Ruth Bancewicz, Senior Research Associate, Faraday Institute

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February 12, 2015

  • Infidel Science: Polygenism in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Religious Press

Dr. G. Blair Nelson, Historian of Science

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November 4, 2014

  • Popularizing Science: Clerical Engagement with Science during the Age of Enlightenment

    Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt, Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College

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October 2, 2014

  • Embodied Souls: Christology, Anthropology, and the Mind/Body Relationship

    Dr. Marc Cortez, Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College

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April 10, 2014

           The Adam of Evolution
           Gerald Rau, author of Mapping the Origins Debate
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January 23, 2014

The War between Science and Faith?

 Timothy Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College

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 December 3, 2013:

How Life Changes Itself:The Read-Write Genome

James A. Shapiro, University of Chicago

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013:

"Revolutionary Food Production—Techniques for the Future, from the Past”
Speaker: Nate Sumner, Operations Manager of Heritage Prairie Farm (Elburn, IL)

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