AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion

Past Public Lectures

DoSER has been hosting public lectures since 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.

2011 | 2010 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

2012

• Are We Only Our Genes?
  13 December 2012
• Losing the Night Sky
  10 May 2012

2011

• DoSER Holiday Lecture: Can Science Explain Everything?
  6 December 2011

2010

• Holiday Lecture and Discussion: What do Scientists Believe? Religion Among Scientists and Implications for Public Perceptions
  15 December 2010
• Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue
  16 June 2010

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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