PROGRAM

 

 

Tuesday

15 March 2011

 

 

07:30-08:30     Registration

 

08:30-08:45     Opening address

Prof Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo

(Deputy Executive Dean: College of Human Sciences, Unisa)

 

08:45-09:15     Science and religion: The road ahead 

Prof Cornel du Toit (Unisa)

 

09:15-10:00  Science and Comparative Religions

                        Philip Clayton (1)

 

10:00-10:15     Response

                        Danie Veldsman (Univ. Of Pretoria)

 

10:15-10:30     TEA /COFFEE

 

10:30-11:00     Scientific Critiques of Natural                        Theology

                         Philip Clayton (2)

 

11:00-11:15     Response

Hansie Wolmerans (University of Johannesburg).

11:15-12:00     General discussion

 

12:00-13:00     LUNCH

  

13:00:13:45      Mind, Body and Religion

                          Philip Clayton (3)

 

13:45-14:00     Response

Cornel du Toit (Unisa)

 

13:45:14:30     Why the New Atheism is

Bad Science

Philip Clayton (4)

14:30-14:45     Response

Prof Francois Durand

(University of Johannesburg)

 

14:45-15:00     TEA /COFFEE

 

15:00-15:45  Cosmology and Eschatology

          Philip Clayton (5)

 

15:45-16:00     Response

                        Prof Klaus Nürnberger                                  (Emiritus, Unisa)

 

16:00-17:00     General discussion      

 

 

 

Highlights and future of the

Science and religion debate:

In dialogue with Philip Clayton

 

15 March 2011

 

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    seminar during registration time

 

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DATE:                        15 March 2011

VENUE:          Building 9, Room 2-H

                        Unisa Sunnyside Campus

                        Cnr. Walker & Mears Streets

                        Sunnyside, Pretoria

                        [Parking: Cnr. Walker & Joubert

                        Streets]

 

Conference registration fee

R150-00 per person

 

This price includes lunch, tea and coffee as indicated on the programme.

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ENQUIRIES:              Maugretta Phukuile

Tel no:                         (012) 429-4369

Fax no:                                    (012) 429-3525

E-mail:                                    phukumlm@unisa.ac.za

 

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Account number:         010 000 114

Reference number:      305200/11550

Branch:                                    Sunnyside

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Meer oor Philip Clayton:

Philip Clayton is a leading figure in the field of science and religion. Currently Ingraham professor of theology at Claremont School of Theology and professor of philosophy and theology at Claremont Graduate University, he obtained doctorates in both philosophy and theology at Yale University and studied under Wolfhart Pannenberg, whose work he translated and commented on. He was awarded the prestigious Templeton research prize in 1999 and has written extensively on subjects ranging from science, religion and ecology to the emergentist hypothesis to evolution and ethics. A panentheist par excellence, he is developing a Christian theology which spans the entire spectrum of philosophy and science in a manner reminiscent of the late Alfred Peacocke, with whom he co-edited work on God’s presence in a scientific world. His work manifestly overlaps that of Unisa’s Science and Religion Forum and his series of lectures will be an outstanding contribution to the local debate.