Program & Schedule

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)

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