IDEA Conference Schedule

Friday, September 27:

5:00 PM	Registration Begins at the Mclaren Center, USF.
5:45 PM	Welcome
6:00 PM	Plenary Session I: Unlocking the Mystery of Life Video -- An Introduction to Intelligent Design
7:10 PM	Plenary Session II: Can Design Become a Pathway to Discovery? by Paul Nelson
8:10 PM	Break - 15 Minutes
8:25 PM	Plenary Session III: Apologetic Value of Intelligent Design by Jay Wesley Richards
9:25 PM	Friday evening complete

Saturday, September 28:

8:45 AM	Opening Remarks
9:00 AM	Plenary Session IV: Cosmic Design by Jay Wesley Richards
10:15	Break - 15 minutes
10:30 AM	Concurrent Session I: (Participants may choose to attend one of about 7 smaller sessions) Concurrent speakers include Cornelius Hunter, Paul Nelson, John Bracht, Eddie Colanter, and Casey Luskin
11:30 AM	Break - 15 minutes
11:45 AM	Plenary Session V: Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life by Edward Peltzer
1:00 PM	Lunch
2:15 PM	Plenary Session VI: Intelligent Design and the Origin of Animal Phyla by Paul Chien
3:30 PM	Break - 15 minutes
3:45 PM	Concurrent Session II (Participants may choose to attend one of about 7 smaller sessions) Concurrent speakers include Cornelius Hunter, Paul Nelson, John Bracht, Eddie Colanter, and Casey Luskin
4:45 PM	Break - 15 minutes
5:00 PM	Plenary Session VII: Irreducible Complexity and Biological Design by Michael Behe
6:15 PM	Panel Discussion with Speakers Behe, Hunter, Richards, Nelson, Peltzer, and Chien
6:45 PM	Final word of thanks -- Conference Officially Complete

Note: The format for the Saturday Plenary Sessions will be roughly a 45 minute lecture, followed by 15 minutes of table discussion (conference attendees will be seated round tables, 10 per table), and 15 minutes of Q & A. The format for the Friday Plenary Sessions will not have a table discussion period, but may have a very limited Q & A period.

Concurrent Session I Talk Titles:

• "One Long Argument: the implicit religion in Darwinism" by Cornelius Hunter

• "Biological Complexity: Invention or Evolution?" by John Bracht

• "The Philosophical Implications of Intelligent Design and Neo-Darwinism: Bioethics and Personhood" by Eddie Colanter

• "Promoting Design on a College Campus: How to start an 'IDEA Club'" by Casey Luskin

• "Ontogenetic Depth as a Complexity Metric for the Cambrian Explosion" by Paul Nelson

• Unlocking the Mystery of Life Video

• Icons of Evolution Video

Concurrent Session II Talk Titles:

• "Preparing the Way: the explicit religion in Darwinism" by Cornelius Hunter

• "Biological Complexity: Invention or Evolution?" by John Bracht

• "The Philosophical Implications of Intelligent Design and Neo-Darwinism: Bioethics and Personhood" by Eddie Colanter

• "Promoting Design on a College Campus: How to start an 'IDEA Club'" by Casey Luskin

• "Ontogenetic Depth as a Complexity Metric for the Cambrian Explosion" by Paul Nelson

• Unlocking the Mystery of Life Video

• Icons of Evolution Video

If you have any immediate questions about the conference, please feel free to e-mail us at "conference@ideacenter.org".