Faith and Reason Speaker
Series from Grace Alive and Grace Valley Christian
Center
Grace
Alive and Grace Valley Christian Center sponsor Jed Macosko, assistant
professor of biophysics at Wake Forest University, who will present "Does
Science Require Atheism? The Language of God in Nature" (pdf
Flyer) on Thursday, February 7, 8:00 p.m., 123 Sciences Lecture Hall.
Dr. Macosko will explore whether the practice of science requires excluding
God, and whether atheism or theism better explains the universe.
Grace
Alive and Grace Valley Christian Center sponsored "An Evening with
Dr. Phillip Johnson" on Friday, December 1, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. at 123
Sciences Building, UCD
Nancy R. Pearcey at UCD April 2006
  Author
of Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity
Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar, World Journalism Institute
Friday, April 28, 2006, 7 pm 123 Sciences, UCD
Total Truth: A Christian Perspective
Saturday April 29, 2006, 10 am GVCC
Whatever Happened to the Christian Mind? (PDF
Flyer)
Nancy Pearcey at GVCC April 2006
 Faith and Reason Lecture Series presented Michael J. Behe,
Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry at Lehigh University, author of Darwin's Black
Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution.
Flyer (pdf)
Friday, April 29, 2005, 6:30 and 8:15 p.m. 194 Chemistry, UC Davis
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Saturday, April 30, 2005, 10 a.m. Grace Valley Christian
Center
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made - A Christian Perspective on the Molecular
Foundation of Life
 Dr. William Dembski (pdf
flyer) spoke at UCD and GVCC as
part of GVCC's Faith and Reason series.
Read his first lecture.
Read his second lecture. One of the key players in the
Intelligent Design movement, Dr. Dembski is currently an associate research
professor in the conceptual foundations of science at Baylor University.
He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of
Chicago and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, as well as a master's of divinity from Princeton Theological
Seminary. He has taught at Northwestern University, University of Notre
Dame, and University of Dallas, is a senior fellow at the Discovery
Institute, and is the author/editor of several books, including The Design
Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities; Intelligent
Design: The Bridge Between Science and Theology; No Free Lunch: Why
Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence; Unapologetic
Apologetics: Meeting the Challenges of Theological Studies; and Debating
Darwinism: From Darwin to DNA.
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He spoke on Friday, January 16,
2004 at 7:30 p.m., 194 Chemistry, on
"Detecting Design in Biological Systems"
(transcript). The
Darwinian mechanism of natural selection is a trial-and-error method which
may solve some routine problems of adaptation but which is incapable of
generating the specified complexity that exists in biological systems. Dr.
Dembski will lay out his methods of design detection, as articulated in The
Design Inference and No Free Lunch, and show how these methods, rather than
Darwinism, solve biology's information problem
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Saturday, January 17, 2004, he spoke at 10 a.m. At GVCC on
"Intelligent
Design: Yesterday's Orthodoxy, Today's Heresy" (transcript).Throughout
history, the idea that intelligence is responsible for the order and
complexity of the natural world has been accepted by most religious faiths and philosophical systems. Only with the rise of Darwinian evolution
has this idea been deemed unreasonable. Dr. Dembski will explain why
intelligent design remains perfectly reasonable and why Darwinism is facing
a crisis that makes its challenge to intelligent design increasingly
unreasonable
Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III spoke November 14-15, 2003 as part of the 2003-2004 Faith and Reason Series flyer
(pdf)
Faith and Reason Series Speaker Series Transcripts (most recent listed first):Dr.
Jed Macosko
Dr. Eta Linnemann
Dr. William Lane Craig
Dr. J. Budziszewski
Dr. Richard Pratt
Dr. Phillip Johnson
Dr. Peter Jones
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