Re: Re: [asa] Apologetics Conference

Sorry to see N. T. Wright mixed up with some of these people.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: <dickfischer@verizon.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [asa] Apologetics Conference

> Who's the Englishman going? He wrote stuff like this;
>
> "What then about the tsunami? There is of course no straightforward
> answer. But there are small clues.
>
> We are not to suppose that the world as it currently is, is the way God
> intends it to be at the last. Some serious thinkers, including some
> contemporary physicists, would actually link the convulsions which still
> happen in the world to evil perpetrated by humans; and it is indeed fair
> enough to probe for deeper connections than modernist science has imagined
> between human behavior and the total environment of our world, including
> tectonic plates. But I find it somewhat easier to suppose that the project
> of creation, the good world which God made at the beginning, was supposed
> to go forward under the wise stewardship of the human race, God's
> vice-gerents, God's image-bearers; and that, when the human race turned to
> worship creation instead of God, the project could not proceed in the
> intended manner, but instead bore thorns and thistles, volcanoes and
> tsunamis, the terrifying wrath of the creation which we humans had treated
> as if it were divine. "
>
> Does this mean that there are no volcanoes more than a million years old?
> What then does he make of 60my volcanism in the Black Hills etc
>
>
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dickfischer@verizon.net>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: [asa] Apologetics Conference
>
>
> I live in the area and McLean Bible Church and I have a long history (I
> got the left foot of fellowship there when I was published in the
> Washington Post in 1986) so if any of you guys are going let me know and
> we can form group of interlopers and monitor this parade of ID guys making
> their pitch for intermittant divine tinkering in the otherwise
> uninterrupted flow of natural events. Or if you would like me to be an
> impartial observor and report back then that's fine with me. (What's the
> symbol for tongue in cheek?)
>
> ~Dick
>
>
> From: Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net>
> Date: 2006/11/13 Mon PM 07:03:13 CST
> To: jack syme <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: [asa] Apologetics Conference
>
> Jack, if you are going, please provide the list with a full report!
> I've pasted the schedule below for those otherwise occupied.
> Thank you.
> Jack Haas
>
> jack syme wrote:
>> Is anyone on this list attending this conference?
>> http://www.apologeticsconference.com/
>>
>
> CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
> *Thursday, November 16*
> 6:30-7:30pm Conference Check-in
> 7:30-8:20 *Plenary Session *- "Evidence for Christianity" - *William
> Lane Craig*, Ph.D., D. Theol.
> 8:20-8:40 Break
> 8:40-9:30 *Workshops*
> Creation and Intelligent Design:
> *Paul Nelson*, Ph.D., "Intelligent Design in Three Easy Steps"
>
> NT Reliability - Focus on Gospels:
> *Craig L. Blomberg*, Ph.D., "The Historical Reliability of the Gospels"
>
> World Religions and New Movements:
> *Harold A. Netland*, Ph.D.,"The East Comes West: Why Jesus Instead of
> the Buddha?"
>
> Contemporary Barriers to Faith:
> *Michael J. Murray*, Ph.D., "Belief in God: Just a Trick of our Brain?"
>
> Student Track:
> *Sean McDowell *- "Truth or Tragedy"
> 9:30-10:30 Book tables open
> * *
> *Friday, November 17 *
> 6:00-7:00pm Premiere of Lee Strobel's film, "The Case for a Creator"
> 6:30-7:30 Walk-in Registration / Check-in
> 7:30-8:20 *Plenary Session - *"Love Your God with All Your Mind" -
> *J.P. Moreland*, Ph.D.
> 8:20-8:40 Break
> 8:40-9:30 *Workshops*
> Creation and Intelligent Design: *
> Bruce Gordon*, Ph.D., "String Theory and Cosmological Fine-Tuning"
>
> NT Reliability - Focus on Gospels:
> *Daniel B. Wallace*, Ph.D., "Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then?
> The Reliability of the New Testament Manuscripts"
>
> World Religions and New Movements:
> *Emir Caner*, Ph.D., "Islam"
>
> Contemporary Barriers to Faith:*
> Doug Geivett*, Ph.D., "Pluralism"
>
> Student Track:
> *Brett Kunkle, *"Total Truth: Building a Christian Worldview"
> 9:30-10:30 Book tables open
> * *
> *Saturday**, November 18*
> 11:00-11:30am Walk-in Registration / Check-in
> 11:30-12:30 *Plenary Session *- "Dealing with Emotional Doubt" - *Gary
> R. Habermas*, Ph.D.
> 12:30-12:55 Break
> 12:55-1:55 *Workshops*
> Creation and Intelligent Design:
> *Guillermo Gonzalez*, Ph.D., "The Privileged Planet"
>
> NT Reliability - Focus on Gospels: *
> Bryant G. Wood*, Ph.D., "New Testament Archaeology"
>
> World Religions and New Movements:
> *Garry Dewees*e, Ph.D., "The Unnaturalness of Naturalism"
>
> Contemporary Barriers to Faith:
> *N.T. Wright*, D.Phil., D.D., "Evil and the Justice of God"
>
> Student Track:*
> *Brett Kunkle, **"The Bankruptcy of Moral Relativism"
> 1:55-2:40 Break
> 2:40-3:40 *Workshops*
> Creation and Intelligent Design: *
> Michael Behe*, Ph.D., "Intelligent Design at the Foundation of Life"*
> *
> NT Reliability - Focus on Gospels: *
> Mike Licona*, Ph.D. (cand.), "The Historian and the Resurrection of Jesus"
>
> World Religions and New Movements:
> *Craig J. Hazen*, Ph.D., "The Changing World of Mormonism"
>
> Contemporary Barriers to Faith:
> *David A. Horner*, D.Phil, "Moral Objections to the Gospel: How can God
> be good and the Gospel true, if Christians are neither? A Case for Moral
> Apologetics"
>
> Student Track:*
> *Brett Kunkle, **"Why I am Not an Evolutionist"
> 3:40-3:55 Break
> 3:55-5:00 *Plenary Session *-"Taking It on the Road: Practical Tactics
> to Share Your Faith" *- Greg Koukl*, M.A.
> 5:00pm Dismiss
>
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