Papers from the ASA 2009 Annual Meeting

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Plenary Session I Friday Evening, 31 July 2009

Charlie Duke, "The Race to the Moon" (Introduction by Mark Shelhamer)
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Plenary Session II Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009

Mario Beauregard, "The Neuroscience of Spirituality"
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Parallel Session I-A Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
Social Sciences

Matthew S. Stanford, "Perceptions and Knowledge of Mental Illness in the Local Church: A Survey of Texas Baptist Pastors"
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Byron R. Johnson, "Religiosity and Delinquency: A Meta Analysis"
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Sung Joon Jang, "Why Do Black Youth Use Drugs Less than White Youth"
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Wade C. Rowatt, "Associations among Religiousness, Social Attitudes, and Prejudice in a National Random Sample of American Adults"
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Parallel Session I-B Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
Science and Theology

Paul H. Seely, "Does the Bible Use Phenomenal Language?"
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Carol A. Hill, "The Worldview Approach to Biblical Interpretation and Origins: What It Is and How It Differs from Accommodation"
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Denis O. Lamoureux, "The Sin-Death Problem: Toward an Evolutionary Creationist Solution"
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Parallel Session I-C Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
History of Science

Bethany N. Sollereder, "The Darwin-Gray Exchange"
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Michael N. Keas, "Darwinism, Fundamentalism, and R. A. Torrey: Issues in Science and Christianity from 1889 to 1925"
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Steve A. Badger, Pentecostal Responses to Evolution: A Historical Overview"
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Plenary Session III Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009

Gerald Cleaver, "The Multiverse--Next Step in Our Growing Perception of Reality?"
Robert Mann, "Believing in Everything?"
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Parallel Session II-A Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Social Sciences (continued)

Andrew Whitehead, "God or Greed? The 'American Dream,' Religion, and White-Collar Crime"
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Michael G. Tenneson, "Measuring Pentecostal Attitudes and Beliefs about Origins"
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Parallel Session II-B Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Science and Theology (continued)

Rodney J. Whitefield, "The Fourth Creative 'Day' of Genesis: Answering the Questions about the Sun and the Moon"
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Ray Williams, "What Kind of Days Are These?"
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Dick Fischer, "Historical Adam"
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Symposium I Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Christianity and the Possibility of a Multiverse

Gerald Cleaver, "The String Multiverse, the Cosmological Anthropic Principle, and Anselm's Ontological Argument"
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Robert Bishop, "The Doctrine of Creation and Cosmology"
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Bruce Gordon, "Multiversal Misgivings: Negating the Naturalistic Universal Possibilism of Multiverse Cosmology"
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Dave Rogstad, "Does the Multiverse Eliminate the Need for God?"
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Summary Panel Discussion
Panelists: Robert Bishop, Gerald Cleaver, Bruce Gordon, Robert Mann, Dave Rogstad
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Parallel Session III-A Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Philosophy, Religion, and Science

John W. Hall, "How to Think about Chance and Purpose"
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Don Petcher, "Methodological Naturalism: Necessary for Science or Superfluous"
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Paul Arveson, "Zero, One, Two, Three: The Dimensions of Relgious Though"
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Parallel Session III-B Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Science and the Church

Fred S. Hickernell, "A Church Course on Science and Faith for Adults"
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John C. Munday, "Elements of the Scientific Method in Scripture"
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Ken Wolgemuth and Gregory S. Bennett, "Pastors Need to Hear from Christian Geologists"
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Worship Service Sunday Morning, 2 August 2009

Michael AbbatÈ, "Gardening Eden -- How Creation Care Will Change Your Faith, Your Life, and Our World"
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Plenary Session IV Sunday Morning, 2 August 2009

James Tour, "Nanotechnology and Standing as a Christian in the Academy"
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Parallel Session IV-A Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Environment

Leslie Wickman, "Cultivating a Personal Christian Environmental Ethic"
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Craig Rusbult, "Teaching Christian Stewardship using Design Method"
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Keith B. Miller, "Natural History as a Foundation for Creation Stewardship"
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Lin Allen, "Sonar Training: Stewardship and the Supreme Court"
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Parallel Session IV-B Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Education

Kimberly C. Dawes, "Nature Study for K-12 Education"
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William B. Collier, "Integration of Christian Worldview into Science Teaching: Teaching Philosophy of Science to General Chemistry Lab Studetns"
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Jerry R. Bergman, "A Survey of How the Subject of Origins Is Taught"
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Ide Trotter, "Science vs. Religion in the Controversy over Texas Science Textbook Standards"
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James Peterson, "Better Thinking through Chemistry: A Theological Prescription"
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Symposium II Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Origins: Part 1

Loren Haarsma and Stephen Meyer, "Four Myths about Intelligent Design and Four Myths about Theistic Evolution"
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Dennis Venema, "Human Genomics: Vestiges of Eden or Skeletons in the Closet?"
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C. John Collins, "Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures? Yes, Indeed!"
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Daniel Harlow, "Adam and Eve as Symbolic Figures in Biblical Literature"
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John Schneider, "Genetic Science and Christianity's Story of Human Origins: An Aesthetic 'Supra-Lapsarianism'"
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Parallel Session V-A Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Environment (continued)

Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, "On Eschewing a Policy-Prescriptive Role for Science in Environmental Controversies"
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Jay Hollman, "The Ethics of Meat Consumption"
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Steven G. Hall, "Use of Bio-engineered Artificial Reefs for Ecological Restoration and Carbon Sequestration"
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Sean M. Cordry, "The Spilling Quiver: Sunshine, the Commons, and the Temple of the Lord"
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Parallel Session V-B Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Science and Technology in Service of the Poor

Steven W. Bradely, "The Role of Comparative Advantage, Distributed Agency, and Distributed Knowledge in Sustainable Economic Development"
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Brian Thomas, "Microhydro-Generation of Electricity: Providing Physical and Spiritual Light in Honduras"
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Walter L. Bradley, "Serving the Poor by Making Better Cook Stoves"
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Stanton Greer, "Coconut Composites: New Products to Bless Poor Coconut Farmers"
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Plenary Session V Sunday Evening, 2 August 2009

Perla Manapol, "South to South: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Poverty Alleviation"
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Parallel Session VI-A Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Christian Perspectives on the Soul

Edward B. Davis, "Evolution and the Image of God: Historical Reflections on Science, Morality, and Human Nature"
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Sara Joan Miles, "Body and Soul: Biological Theories of Generation and Theological Theories of Ensoulment"
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Rodney J. Scott, "Relating Body and Soul: A Collision between Theology, Science, and Good Intentions"
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Parallel Session VI-B Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Science and Technology in Service of the Poor (continued)

Dominic M. Halsmer, "Worldview by Affordance-Based Reverse Engineering of Complex Natural Systems"
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William M. Jordan, "A Christian Approach to the Ethics of International Development Projects"
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Parallel Session VI-C Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Science and Technology in Service of the Poor (continued)

Kenell J. Touryan, "Science and Faith Issues in Islam: Is There an Avenue of Rapprochement between ASAers and Practicing Muslim Scientists?"
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Harry Lee Poe, "Edgar Allan Poe's Big Bang Theory and the Power of Imagination"
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Symposium II (continued) Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Origins: Part II

Robert Kaita, "Personal Computer Application Programs as Tools for Conceptualizing Aspects of Evolutionary Theory"
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Richard Sternberg, "The Generation of Essential RNA Messages from Pseudogene Transcripts by Exemplar Causation"
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Douglas Axe, "The Information Required for Metabolic Innovation, and Why the Darwinian Mechanism Is Not Apt to Be Its Source"

Robert J. Marks II and William A Dembski, "Evolutionary Informatics: Measuring the Cost of Success"
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David Campbell, "The Origin of Higher Taxa"
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David Snoke, "Is It Wrong to Quantify Wonder?"
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Parallel Session VII-A Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Astronomy

Joseph L. Spradley, "Importance of the Moon for Life on Earth"
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Rollin A. King, "Chemistry in Counterfactual Universes"
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Richard G. McClure, "The Star of Bethlehem: How a Near-Earth Asteroid Explains the Magi's Star"

Parallel Session VII-B Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Science and Theology (continued)

Janel M. Curry, "God and Nature: An Analysis of Post Katrina and Asian Tsunami Sermons"
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William A. Dembski, "The Retroactive Effects of the Fall"
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