The Darwin Debate

Does Intelligent Design offer Closure or Confusion?

A Day conference with Prof Tom Woodward (keynote speaker), Prof Andy McIntosh, Dr Philip Sampson, Dr Arthur Jones and Mark Roques. How should Christians respond?

Date & Time: Saturday 31st October, 10.00 am to 4.45 pm Venue: Woodside Methodist Church , Outwood Lane , Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4HP. Cost: £20 (concessions £12, students £6) including sandwich lunch and refreshments.
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Is it a choice between science and superstitions?
Must evolution be materialistic and God-less to be scientific?
Is committed religious faith compatible with scientific research?
Is Darwinism a neutral biological theory to which people illicitly add worldviews, philosophies, ideologies and religion?
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Should discussion of Creationism and Intelligent Design be banned from school science, or even from
schools altogether?
Are naturalistic(unpredictable, unguided, unintelligent) processes adequate to explain the diversity of life?
Our highly qualified speakers will address the above questions and many others of relevance to both scientists and disciples in today’s world?

Tom Woodward BA, ThM, PhD is research professor and chair of the theology department at Trinity College of Florida. He teaches the history and rhetoric of science and authored the award-winning Doubts about Darwin: a history of Intelligent Design (Baker Books, 2003). Its sequel is Darwin Strikes Back: defending the science of Intelligent Design (Baker Books, 2006). He is an avid astronomer.

Andy McIntosh BSc, PhD, DSc, FIMA, CMath, FInstE, CEng, FInstP, MIGEM, FRAeS is Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at the University of Leeds. He researches the modelling of combustion and ignition, and, more recently, biomimetics – looking at the potential of natural designs for use in industry and commerce. His work in mathematics and science has convinced him that the world and the Universe show powerful evidence of design. He is often asked to speak on the subject of origins both in the UK and abroad.

Philip Sampson BSc, PhD is a writer and lecturer. He originally trained as a mathematical physicist, worked as a statistician, and later trained and practised as a psychotherapist and family mediator. He was also a research fellow in social sciences at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Six Modern Myths (2000), which contains a chapter on Darwin. He is currently working on articles and a book on Animal Theology.

Arthur Jones BSc, MEd, PhD, CBiol, MIBiol chairs the Association of Christian Teachers and leads the Stapleford Centre postgraduate distance-learning course Faith in Schools. From September he is helping co-ordinate the mission based training for the Church Army. He taught the sciences for more than 30 years in the UK, India and Nepal. His doctorate was an historical, philosophical and scientific analysis of models of origins, which examined the central role of metaphysical commitments in science. He authored Science in Faith: a Christian perspective on teaching science (1998).

Mark Roques BA, MPhil, PGCE is WYSOCS’ tutor, a great story-teller (see http://www.markroques.com), and a conference speaker in the UK and overseas. He has taught philosophy and RE and is passionate about saltwater crocodiles and football. He is the author of Curriculum Unmasked (1989), The Good, The Bad and The Misled (1994) and Fields of God: football and the kingdom of God.