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Is Science Fiction Science?
Science Fiction enables scientific creativity to break free, unrestricted by the laws of nature as we know them, and allows contemporary issues to be explored in radically different environments than the normal trappings. By definition, Science Fiction is a genre that creates alternate scenarios and then watches them play out.
Participants
 | | Michael Crichton
Author, Producer, Director |
| | David Brin, Ph.D.
Author, Physicist |
| | Octavia E. Butler
Author, MacArthur Fellow |
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Can We Believe in Both Science and Religion?
Science and Religion have long been considered adversaries on the battlefield of grand worldviews because at the most fundamental level they both claim to do much the same thing: provide deep insight into the nature of the world around us and give a profound sense of our place or purpose in the universe. Science is founded on empiricism and analysis; religion on revelation and faith -- and some say they exist in such different spheres that they neither contradict nor interact.
Participants
| | Muzaffar Iqbal Ph.D.
President/Founder: Center for Islam & Science |
| | Nancey Murphy Ph.D., Th.D.
Professor, Fuller Theological Seminary |
| | Michael Shermer Ph.D.
President, The Skeptics Society, Author, Publisher |
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How Does Basic Science Defend America?
Science has always been divided between basic science, which may or may not have application to the world we live in and applied science, which directly feeds us useful products and services. But with the scientific spirit of discovery tempered by the past half-century's practicality, we've increasingly had to justify expenditures on basic science, whether by the need for national defense or other "useful" scientific endeavors.
Participants
| | Llewellyn "Doc" Dougherty Ph.D.
Defense contractor |
| | David Herrelko Ph.D.
Brig. Gen. Ret. |
| | Steven Koonin Ph.D.
Provost, Caltech |
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Can Religion Withstand Technology?
A skeptic, a devout Muslim scientist, and an expert in the sociology of religion examine an intriguing paradox: as the world becomes more scientific, extreme religions are gaining ground. More people than ever before are devout as measured by attendance in houses of worship. In the U.S. alone, on a percentage basis, three times more people attend a church, synagogue, temple, or mosque than did when the nation was founded.
Participants
| | Muzaffar Iqbal Ph.D.
Founder, Center for Science & Islam |
| | Donald Miller Ph.D.
Religious Scholar |
| | Michael Shermer Ph.D.
President, the Skeptics Society |
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