Food for Thought and Thought for Food
April 9, 2005           CONFERENCE PHOTOS

GENERAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION
April 8, 2005, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Second Presbyterian Church
318 E. 55th Street, Kansas City, MO
Dinner with Chumley, Freudenberger, and Jackson
Free of charge to persons who have participated in reading groups
Reservations required: call Second Presbyterian Church, 816-363-1300
For information on reading groups call 816-363-1300

April 9, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Linda Hall Science Library
5109 Cherry, Kansas City, MO
Limited seating/reservations requested: call Second Presbyterian Church, 816-363-1300
Registration fee: $10.00 (includes a box lunch)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Friday, April 8, 2005
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Second Presbyterian Church
Dinner with Chumley, Freudenberger, Jackson

Saturday, April 9, 2005
Linda Hall Science Library
9:00 a.m. Welcome
9:15 a.m. Forrest G. Chumley
“Academic and Industry Views on GMOs”
Forrest G. Chumley   (Biography)
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. C. Dean Freudenberger
“GMO Crops and the Challenge of Global Food Security”
C. Dean Freudenberger   (Biography)
12:15 p.m. Box Lunch
1:15 p.m. Wes Jackson
“The Necessity and Possibility of an Agriculture Where Nature Is the
Measure”
Wes Jackson   (Biography)

3:00 p.m. Adjourn

2004 Lecture Series

If you were unable to attend the John Haught lecture, click here to download a PDF of a related talk: http://www.stmarylebow.co.uk/docs/BoyleBooklet.pdf

Anti-evolution or Pro-evolution? Don't decide until you've heard all the options. Ron Numbers and John Haught lecture on the evening of March 25 and explain both the options in creationism and a theology of evolution. The evening begins with hors d'oeuvres, continues with two short lectures, and concludes with a reception and book signing.

Reception and Book signing. (in cooperation with Rainy Day Books)

A registration fee of $5.00 is payable at the event on March 25. For information and reservations, contact Second Presbyterian Church in Kansas City at (816) 363-1300.

Ron Numbers
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Second Presbyterian Church (at 55th and Brookside)

RONALD L. NUMBERS is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and a member of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for three decades.

He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including, most recently, Darwinism Comes to America (Harvard University Press, 1998), Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 1999), coedited with John Stenhouse, and When Science and Christianity Meet (University of Chicago Press, 2003), coedited with David Lindberg. For five years (1989-1993) he edited Isis, the flagship journal of the history of science. He is writing a history of science in America, editing a series of monographs on the history of medicine, science, and religion for the Johns Hopkins University Press, and coediting, with David Lindberg, the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science.

He is a past president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History. A former Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science.

John F. Haught
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Second Presbyterian Church (at 55th and Brookside)

JOHN F. HAUGHT (Ph. D. Catholic University, 1970) is Thomas Healey
Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of
specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues
pertaining to religion and science, esp. cosmology, evolution and ecology.

He is the author of Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age Of Evolution (Westview Press, 2003). Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution (Paulist Press, 2001); God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution (Westview Press, 2000); Science and Religion: From Conflict to Conversation (Paulist Press, 1995);The Promise of Nature: Ecology and Cosmic Purpose (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1993); Mystery and Promise: A Theology of Revelation (Liturgical Press, 1993); What Is Religion? (Paulist Press, 1990); The Revelation of God in History (Michael Glazier Press, 1988); What Is God? (Paulist Press, 1986);The Cosmic Adventure (New York: Paulist Press, 1984; Nature and Purpose (University Press of America, 1980); Religion and Self-Acceptance (Paulist Press, 1976); and editor of Science and Religion in Search of Cosmic Purpose (Georgetown University Press, 2000) as well as author of numerous articles.

He recently won the Owen Garrigan Award in Science and Religion. In 1996 he established the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion.

He and his wife Evelyn have two sons and live in Arlington, Va.

2003 Lecture Series

Nancy Murphy
Monday, September 15, 2003, 5:30 p.m.
Wahl East Auditorium at The University of Kansas Medical Center

Nancey Murphy

"What Are Human Beings Made Of?" The majority of Americans think of themselves as a composite of body and soul. In this lecture, Murphy presents biblical and scientific support for the view that we are physical organisms, through and through. This is not, however, to deny humans' capacity to be in relationship with God, both now and in the next life.

NANCY MURPHY is professor of Christian philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. She is a leading scholar in the relationship between science and religion. Her books include On the Moral Nature of the Universe and the award-winning Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning. Murphy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences and an ordained minister in the Church of the Brethren.

Ronald Cole-Turner
Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 7:00 p.m.
Second Presbyterian Church (at 55th and Brookside)

Ronald Cole-Turner

"Biotechnology: Why Should People of Faith Care?" With the Human Genome Project now complete, with political controversy over cloning and embryo research, and with the prospect of designer children looming ahead, people of faith have much at stake in the debate over the future of biotechnology. But how do we sort out fact from fiction, issues from fears, and theological principles from political rhetoric? How does faith inform our understanding and how can religious morality guide our destiny?

RONALD COLE-TURNER is H. Parker Sharp Professor of Theology and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, a faculty position that relates theology and ethics to developments in science and technology. An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, Cole-Turner serves on the Advisory Board of the John Templeton Foundation and on the Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which recently addressed issues concerning potential genetic engineering of humans.