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1998 CiS/ASA ConferenceThe 1998 conference was held jointly with the American Scientific Affiliation in Churchill College, Cambridge, from Sunday 2 August to Wednesday 5 August. Science and Christianity:
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| noon | Registration |
| 16.00 | TEA |
| 16.30 | Welcome: Colin Humphreys, Colin Russell, Sara Miles, and Don Munro; Lawrence Osborn |
| 17.00 | Opening service with address by Roy Clements (Cambridge) |
| 19.00 | DINNER |
| 20.30 | Plenary addresses: Oliver Barclay (Leicester): God and 'nature' Sam Berry (London): The Fall - how much have we added to the Bible? |
Monday, 3 August
| BREAKFAST | |
| 08.45 | Opening devotion |
| 09.00 | Plenary address: Francis Collins(Bethesda): The Human Genome Project: tool of atheistic reductionism or embodiment of the Christian mandate to heal? |
| 10.00 | Gareth Jones (Otago): The human embryo: the time has come to reassess theological approaches in the light of scientific developments |
| 10.25 | Donald Bruce (Edinburgh): A Christian view on cloning from Edinburgh |
| 10.50 | COFFEE |
| 11.15 | Roger Kennett (Wheaten): Human behavioural genetics and the concept of sin. Can sin he genetically determined? |
| 11.40 | Pattle Pun (Wheaten): Towards an ethic of the Human Genome Project |
| 12.05 | Kenneth Dormer (Oklahoma) and George Kinoti (Kenya): Science & development in developing countries: Western modus operandi and Christian involvement |
| LUNCH | |
| 14.00 | Michael Poole (London): Explaining or explaining away? The concept of explanation in the science and religion debate |
| 14.25 | Richard Bell (Nottingham): The subject-object relationship in theology and physics: a contribution to the debate as to whether theology is a science |
| 14.50 | Rob Koons (Austin): Teleological realism: a third way |
| 15.15 | Denis Lamoureux (Edmonton): Evangelicals "inheriting the wind": the Phillip E Johnson phenomenon |
| 15.45 | TEA |
| 16.30 | Poster Session with contributors standing by their posters to expound and answer questions. |
| 17.30 | Parallel Workshop Session: Communicating and modern media possibilities. Organised by Justin Marston (Durham) |
| 19.00 | DINNER |
| 20.30 | Colin Humphreys (Cambridge): The number of people in the Exodus from Egypt: decoding mathematically the very large numbers in Numbers chapters 1 and 26 |
| 20.55 | H D Bestman & H Cook (Edmonton): A persistent view: neo-Lamarckian thought in early evolutionary theories and in modern biology |
| 21.20 | Michael Roberts (Chirk): Design up to scratch? A comparison of design in Buckland (1832) and Behe |
| 21.45 | Donald Robe (Denton): Copernicus and Martin Luther: an encounter between science and religion |
| 22.10 | Michael Corey (Charleston): Supernatural agency and the modern scientific method |
Tuesday, 4 August
| BREAKFAST | |
| 08.45 | Opening devotion: Malcolm Jeeves (St Andrews) |
| All Day Symposium: Portraits of Human Nature |
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| 09.00 | Introduction Chuck Harper (Templeton), Warren Brown (Fuller) and Nancey Murphy (Fuller) |
| 09.30 | Francisco Ayala (Irvine): Human nature. one evolutionist 's view |
| 10.00 | Elving Anderson (Minneapolis): A genetic view of human nature |
| 10.30 | Malcolm Jeeves (St. Andrews): Brain, mind and behaviour |
| 11.00 | COFFEE |
| 11.30 | Warren Brown (Fuller): Cognitive contributions to soul |
| 12.00 | Nancey Murphy (Fuller): Non reductive physicalism: philosophical issues |
| 13.00 | LUNCH |
| 14.00 | Afternoon free: tour(s) of Cambridge |
| 16.00 | TEA |
| 16.30 | Joel Green (Asbury): Monism and the nature of humans in scripture |
| 17.00 | Stephen Post (Case Reserve): A moral case for non-reductive physicalism |
| 17.30 | Newton Malony (Fuller): Counselling body/soul persons |
| 18.00 | General Discussion |
| 19.00 | DINNER |
| 20.30 | Colin Russell (Bedford): Faraday and the Sandemanians |
| 20.55 | Paul Marston (Preston): Sedgwick and the Scriptural Geologists |
| 21.20 | David Livingstone (Belfast): Darwinism and Calvinism: A tale of three cities |
| 21.45 | Richard Ruble (John Brown): Mr Oddity and science |
Wednesday, 5 August
| BREAKFAST | |
| 08.45 | Opening devotion |
| 09.00 | Plenary Address: John Houghton (Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution): Caring for the Earth: a challenge to scientists and Christians |
| 10.00 | John Sale (Oswestry): Biodiversity loss in the developing world and sustainable development |
| 10.25 | Ghillean Prance (Kew): From the diverse rainforest to a desert island |
| 10.50 | COFFEE |
| 11.15 | William Monsma (Minneapolis): Wilderness and garden |
| 11.40 | Rod Benson (Manchester): Creation declares the glory of God |
| 12.05 | Joseph Spradley (Wheaten): Christological contributions to science |
| 12.30 | Jack Haas (Gordon): Summing up and final prayer |
| 13.00 | LUNCH and disperse |
