Contacts:

Dennis Cooley
701-231-7038
dennis.cooley@ndsu.edu

Davis Cope
701-293-7188
davis_cope@msn.com

SRLS Links

The usual format for meetings is 40 minutes speaker presentation followed by 20 minutes for question and answers.

Speakers are free to modify this and take questions during their presentation

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Science Religion and Lunch Seminars

Fall Semester 2008

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
01 Apr 08	Arguing both sides oa a question: The Value of Switch-Sides Debate	Robert Littlefield	Mandan
08 Apr 08	The Rural Church Movement.	Gary Goreham	Mandan
15 Apr 08	Ethics for Atheists	Dennis Cooley	Century Theater

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
11 Mar 08	Existence: What is it?	Reza Saberi	Mandan
18 Mar 08	Moses vs. The Documentary Hypothesis: A Brief Intro to Source Criticism of the Torah.	Nate Ramsayer	Mandan
25 Mar 08	Islam in Balkan Culture	John Cox	Mandan

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
05 Feb 08	A Question About Religion Science Can Address: Is "Religious Speciation" analogous to "Darwinian Speciation"	Gerald Fauske	Mandan
12 Feb 08	What is the Difference Between Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity?	Darin Johnson	Mandan
19 Feb 08	How "Darwin's Black Box" Gets Evolutionary Molecular Biology Wrong. A request by M. Wishnatsky to post Behe's description of a mouse trap.	Mandy Klocke	Mandan
26 Feb 08	Book review of The Spirituality of the Cross by Gene E. Veith, Jr. and an earlier talk on Bibilical Interpretation	Ken Koehler	Mandan

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
22 Jan 08	Religious Background of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights	John Helgeland	Mandan
29 Jan 08	Book review: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ...additional comments...	Lilie Schoenack	Mandan

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
06 Nov 07	Evidence on the Sojourn of Jesus to India.	Syed Ahmad	Mandan Room
13 Nov 07	Non-scientific Presuppositions of Popular Scientific Movements	Tony Flood	Mandan Room
20 Nov 07	Book Review: "The World's Religions" by Huston Smith	Gerald Fauske	Mandan Room
27 Nov 07

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
02 Oct 07	Schleiermacher Answers All Your Questions	John Helgeland	Mandan Room
09 Oct 07	An Ancient, God-Centered, Scientifically Compatible Explanation of Creation and How the Universe Works. Part 1	Kathryn Trill	Mandan Room
16 Oct 07	An Ancient, God-Centered, Scientifically Compatible Explanation of Creation and How the Universe Works. Part 2	Kathryn Trill	Mandan Room
23 Oct 07	Book Review: Jesus for the Nonreligious by Bishop Shelby Spong	Paul Froeschle	Mandan Room
30 Oct 07	Christian-Muslim Interaction at the Dawn of Islam	Syed Ahmad	Mandan Room

Date	Topic	Presentor	Location
04 Sept 07	Transgender and the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy Part 1	David Du Shane	Agassi Room
11 Sept 07	Transgender and the Nature/Nurture Dichotomy Part 2	David Du Shane	Mandan Room
18 Sept 07	A Refutation of Human Evolution	Martin Wishnatsky	Mandan Room
25 Sept 07	Remarks on human evolution	Tom Riley	Mandan Room