Friday, October 25th

**Conference Begins**
5 – 7 PM Dinner (included in registration)

7 – 9:30 PM Opening plenary session (Jed Macosko, emcee)

7 – 8 PM Bill Dembski, Baylor Univ.
“Becoming a Disciplined Science: Prospects, Pitfalls, and Reality Check for ID”
(includes 10 min of Q&A)

8 – 8:30 PM David Chiu, Univ. of Guelph.
"Exploring Higher-Order Formations of Biomolecules"

8:30 - 9:30 PM Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay Richards, IA State Univ. and Discovery Inst. “The Privileged Planet”

Saturday, October 26th

8 – 9:30 AM Morning plenary session (Jonathan Wells, emcee)

Stephen Meyer and Guest, Discovery Inst.
"The Cambrian Information Explosion: Evidence of Intelligent Design" and
“Getting Scientists to See the Scientific Problem”

9:30 – 9:45 AM Coffee break

9:45 – 12 noon Morning lecture session

Track 1 “Heavens”: (four 20 min talks, 10 min Q&A and 15 min break)

Frank Tipler, Tulane
“The Supernatural in Cosmology”

Fred Skiff, U of IA
“Specified complexity and nonlinear dynamics”

Forrest Mims, Geronimo Creek Observatory
“Natural levels of ultraviolet sunlight are designed to suppress pathogenic microorganisms suspended in air and water”

Christopher Langan, Megafoundation
"The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory"

Track 2 “Earth”: (five 20 min talks, 10 min Q&A and one15 min talk)

Rick Sternberg, NIH
“Causal entailments in convergently developed, irreducibly complex organ systems”

Ed Peltzer, MBARI
“Origin of Life”

Marty Poenie, U of TX

Greg Shearer, UC Davis
“Lipoprotein lipase and myeloperoxidase: multifunctional heparan sulfate binding proteins”

David Keller, U of NM
“Molecular Machines”

Noon – 2 PM Lunch and lecture (Mark Ryland, introducing)

Ben Wiker, Franciscan Univ, Steubenville
"Out from under the Shadow of Materialism"

2 – 4:30 PM Free time

2 – 3 PM optional lecture Scott and Ryan Huxley IDEA center director
“Redundancy in Design”

3– 4:30 PM optional panel discussion
“Building Bridges to Academia” (Casey Luskin, emcee)
Graduate Students

4:30 – 7 PM Dinner by discussion groups at restaurants
(not included in registration)

7 – 9:10 PM Evening plenary session (Paul Nelson, emcee)

7:00 – 7:30 PM Walter Bradley, Texas A&M

7:30 – 8:30 Scott Minnich and guest, U of ID
“Fitness Inversions” and “Intelligent Design and its Potential Impact Upon Evolutionary Research”

8:30 – 9:10 PM (four 10 min presentations regarding thoughts and research on ID)

Rebecca Keller, U. of NM, Title TBA
Marvin Payne, La Sierra Univ., Title TBA
Curt Deckert, Curt Deckert Associates, Inc.
“The potential role of eye design in the intelligent design controversy"
Bruce Evans, Huntington College, Title TBA

Sunday, October 27th

8:00– 8:30 AM Optional Worship Service

8:30 – 10:30 AM Third lecture session
(four 20 min talks in each track with 10 min Q&A)

Track 1 “Telos”:

Kirk Durston, New Scholars Society
“Intelligent Design, Genetic Information, and Evolution”

Frank Tipler, Tulane
"Experimental Tests for Miracles”

Tim Standish, Andrews Univ.
“Heteronucleic Acid Replication Systems: How ID Prompts The Question “Why?” Once The “What?” Is Known”

Bernard Brandstater, LLU
“A Design Argument from Beauty”

Track 2 “Praxis”:

Paul Brown, Trinity Western Univ
“Model Plant Systems as a Test of Darwinistic and ID Predictions”

Fuz Rana, RTB
“The Cell Membrane: A New Vista for Design”

Jim Swanson Old Dominion Univ
“Anatomical Consistency in Surgically Oriented Research”

Russ Carlson, U of GA
“Complex Carbohydrates: design is intelligent and perhaps sweet”

10:30 – 11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30 PM Final plenary session (Bill Dembski, emcee)
Jed Macosko, La Sierra Univ.
“ID Research: Don’t Do It Alone”

12:30– 2:30 PM Lunch (included in registration)
**Conference Ends**