“What’s at Stake? Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Faith
Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Nunemaker Auditorium, Monroe Hall
an all-day program featuring
John F. Haught, Ph.D.
a theologian’s perspective
John F. Haught, Ph.D., is the Landegger Distinguished Professor of Theology at Georgetown University. His area of expertise is systematic theology, with a special interest in issues of science, cosmology, ecology, and reconciling evolution and religion. He is the author of several important books on the creation-evolution controversy, including Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution, God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution, and Responses to 101 Questions on God and Evolution. Haught also established the Georgetown Center for the Study of Science and Religion.
Craig Hood, Ph.D.
Professor of Biological Sciences, Loyola University New Orleans
a biologist’s perspective
Evolutionary biologist Craig S. Hood, Ph.D., is a professor of biological sciences at Loyola University New Orleans. His subject area expertise is in concepts of evolution, ecology, and the organismal form/function relationship. Current research interests include the study of geographic variation, fluctuating asymmetry, and sexual dimorphism in vertebrates, and conservation biology of mammals. Hood has contributed to myriad publications including Southeastern Naturalist, Journal of Vegetation Science, Systematic Biology, and Journal of Mammalogy.
Paul A. Nelson, Ph.D.
the case for intelligent design
Intelligent design advocate Paul A. Nelson, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Science and Religion at Biola University, is a fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture and of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design. He has published articles in Biology & Philosophy, Zygon, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, and Touchstone, as well as chapters in the anthologies Mere Creation, Signs of Intelligence, and Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics. Nelson is the grandson of creationist author Byron C. Nelson and edited a book of his work, The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson.
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D.
the case against intelligent design
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University. An outspoken critic of intelligent design, she co-author of Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, which examines the goals and strategies of the intelligent design movement and its attempts to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology. Forrest serves on the board of directors of the National Center for Science Education, the National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association.
