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