AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
News & Events: Public Lecture: Archive

Past Public Lectures
The DoSER Public Lecture Series began in the spring of 2001 to highlight significant work in the field of science and religion and help inform the public on science and religion Issues.

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2007

• 23 June 2007
  AAAS Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Seminar

2006

• 18 October 2006
  What New Technology is Telling Us About the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 4 May 2006
  Human Evolution, Why Do Experts Disagree?
• 20 April 2006
  The Origin of Species: What Do We Really Know?
• 27 March 2006
  George V. Coyne, Director of the Vatican Observatory:
  The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace 
• 26 January
  Chance or Necessity - Modeling Origins of Life

2005

• 1 December 2005
  The Assembly of Protocells
• 10 November 2005
  Synthetic Biology: Hardware, Software, and Wetware
• 20 October 2005
  Evolution of Biological Complexity
• 22 September 2005
  Searching for a Second Genesis of Life in Our Solar System
• 26 May 2005
  Genes, Memes, Spirituality, and Religion   
• 28 April 2005
  Naturalness versus the Superstring Landscape, or, Why Does The Universe Appear Finely Tuned?

2004

• 2 December 2004
  Science and Religion in Science Fiction
• 4 November 2004
  Genome Lineages and the Evolution of Life
• 23 September 2004
  Toward a Remembrance of Things Past: Solving Alzheimers Disease
• 20 May 2004
  Affective Computing: Toward Computers That Recognize and Respond to Human Emotion
• 15 April 2004
  Is the Universe Lively or Lonely? The Quest for World's and Life beyond Our Solar System
• 21 March 2004
  Paradigm Shift?
• 18 March 2004
  What Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature and the Meaning of Art
• 19 February 2004
  Evidence and Cosmology: What we have learned from NASA's cosmic radiation probe
• 22 January 2004
  What Ants and Bees Tell Us about Social Networks

2003

• 4 December 2003
  Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Next Big Idea is Really Small
  
• 13 November 2003
  Galileo and the Church: The myth and the reality
• October 16, 2003
  Wild Justice and Fair Play: Animal Origins of Social Morality
• 22 May 2003
  Time to Abandon Darwin? The Challenge from Intelligent Design
• 10 April 2003
  Three Laws of Behavior Genetics and What They Mean
• 27 March 2003
  Life Elsewhere? Astrobiology, Science, and Society
• 16 January 2003
  Before the Beginning .... The Return of the Cyclic Universe

2002

• 12 November 2002
  Darwin's Cathedral - Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society
• 10 October 2002
  Neanderthals: Who were they, what happened to them, how are they related to us?
• September 19, 2002
  Sleepless in Washington: Pharmacological engineering of human needs
• 28 May 2002
  Evolution of the Extraordinary in Human Life
• 11 April 2002
  Avoiding the Sixth Major Extinction, Why it Matters
• 7 March 2002
  Ethical Issues Arising from the Study of the Human Genome
• 27 February 2002
  Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
• 17 January 2002
  Food and Biotechnology: The Ethical Issues

• 29 November 2001
  Cosmology and Kabbalah
• 25 October 2001
  The Cloning of Mammals: What are the Implications for Human Cloning?
• 13 September 2001
  Science, Religion, and the Origin of Life
• 31 May 2001
  Flesh & Machines
• 26 April 2001
  Evolution & the Quest for Purpose
• 29 March 2001
  Physics, Metaphysics and Meaning
• 9 March 2001
  Inheritable Genetic Modifications and its Ethical, Religious, and Policy Implications