12 March 2016
Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah
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8:30-9:00: Opening Session
Welcome
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Symposium Organizing Committee
Introductory Remarks
Daniel C. Peterson
President, The Interpreter Foundation
9:00-10:15: Keynote Session
Keynote Session Introduction and Comments
Jani Radebaugh
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University
Keynote Address: Astronomy, God, and the Search for Elegance
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ
Director of the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-12:00: Body, Mind, and Spirit
Session Chair
Daniel C. Peterson
Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic, Brigham Young University
Dualism is Dead! Long Live Dualism!
James E. Faulconer
Richard L. Evans Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University
Is God More Like a Rock or the Idea of a Rock?
Stephen H. Webb (note on his recent passing)
Catholic theologian, author, and First Things columnist
Veiled in Flesh: An LDS Perspective on the Body
Camille Stilson Williams
Independent Scholar and former Administrative Director of the Marriage and Family Law Research Project at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University
12:00-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-3:30: Brains, Genes, and Divine Anthropology
Session Chair
David H. Bailey
Symposium Organizing Committee
Senior Scientist (retired), Berkeley National Laboratory and Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis
The Burden We Cannot Bear: Humans as Deity in Late-Modern Culture
Samuel M. Brown
Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine and Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah/Intermountain Medical Center
All Abraham’s Children: A Genetic Perspective
Ugo A. Perego
Director of the Rome LDS Institute Campus and Visiting Scientist, University of Perugia
In the Visions of the Night: The Human Brain and Divine Revelation
Brant A. Gardner
Independent Scholar on the Book of Mormon and Mesoamerican studies
The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be: Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Senior Research Scientist, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
