Science, Religion, and Faith

1. Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006; Theme: Welcome & Orientation

4:30 pm Reception in Resurrection Center “Fire Place” room and deck.

6:30 pm Dinner & Welcoming Announcements

7:30 pm Discussion of plan for the weekend & evening program. Theme: “Science, Religion & Rationality” by Seminar presenters.

9:00 pm First showing of “A Sense of Scale” Fermilab DVD, 28 mins.

(www-visualmedia.fnal.gov)

2. Friday, Sept. 8, Theme: Current understandings of the Origin of the Universe & Evolution

7:30 am Breakfast 

8:00 am Second showing of “A Sense of Scale.”

8:45 am Bus departs for Fermilab in Batavia & showing of “Robert Wilson: A Life of Courage and Creativity” DVD on board (36 mins.)

(www-visualmedia.fnal.gov)

!0:00 am View Wilson’s “Broken Symmetry” sculpture & visit 15^th floor Public exhibits and Fermilab overlook

10:30 am Lecture & discussion on “New Understandings of the Physical Universe & Cosmological Puzzles” by Prof. Scott Dodelson

Noon: Buffet lunch in the Fermilab 2nd floor “Crossover”

12:45 pm Partial tour of Fermilab facility

2:00 pm Bus departs for Resurrection Ctr.

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, Free time

4:30 pm - 5:15 pm, Presentation on the “Evolution & the Trouble it Causes the Faithful” by Bart Reitz

5:15 pm – 6:00 pm, Discussion of Cosmology & Evolution

6:30 pm Dinner

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, Implications & Questions for Religion in the 21^st Century

3. Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006 Theme: Imagining God in the 21^st Century & what difference it makes

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Presentation on Keeping Life’s Questions by Dr. Fred Borsch

10:30 am Break

11:00 am Discussion with Borsch continues

Noon Lunch

1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, Free time

2:30 PM Presentation on “Is Religion Still Relevant? A Focus on Christianity in its Third Millennium” by Dr. Arthur Bellinzoni

3:30 Break

4:00 pm, Discussion with Bellinzoni continues

5:00 pm, Implications for Religion, Science, Education, Society, & Politics

6:30 pm Dinner

4. Sunday, Sept. 10, Theme: Reflections and Farewell

8:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am Optional worship & communion service led by Bishop Fred Borsch

10:30 am Farewell