Some talks and lectures were live-streamed on the ISCAST Facebook page during COSAC 2018. What a wealth of fascinating talks!

 

Tom Aechtner: Teaching warfare: The perpetuation of science-religion conflict in modern university textbooks

 

Sarah Beattie: From Eden to interstellar space: Radical departures form the familiar, to reality at the boundaries of the thinkable 

 

Cosimo Chiera and Thomas Edwards: The mathematics of forgiveness

 

Jonathan Clarke: A sense of total depravity: Secular responses to exploring the ‘final frontier’

 

Denise Cooper-Clarke: Living with ‘assisted dying’: An introduction to the issues and ethics of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide in Australia 

 

Robert Martin: Apologetics in a post-everything age (starts 0:00:00)
Ian Barns: The anthropocene era in a Trinitarian frame: Reflections on Clive Hamilton’s Defiant Earth (starts 30:00:00)
Luke Barnes: A fortunate universe: Fine tuned for life? (starts 1:00:00)

 

Christopher Forbes: Early Greek philosophy: The beginnings of Western secular humanism?

 

James Garth: War of the worldviews: Naturalism, theism and the vision of space exploration

 

Alan Gijsbers: ISCAST President’s address

 

Alan Gijsbers: Truth, light, glory

David Graieg: Does it violate scientific/historical methodology to claim that Jeses rose from the dead? (Part 1)

 

David Graieg: Does it violate scientific/historical methodology to claim that Jeses rose from the dead? (Part 2)

 

Ian Harper: The science of economics in the service of God

 

Peter Harrison: Clearing the air about the Galileo affair

 

Philippa Lohmeyer-Collins: Can 9 and 10-year-olds gain the skills to see the differences between science and religion?

 

Fergus McGinley: Science, materialism and the zombie apocalypse

 

Ross McKenzie: Do ancient religious texts contain modern scientific knowledge?

 

John Pilbrow: Metaphysical assumptions underpinning science

 

Loretta Scolaro: Genesis and evolution: Let’s talk about it!

 

Simon Wayte: The holographic Christ: Finding meaning in a chaotic world

 

Andrew Wood: Quantum minds, quantum souls: Does quantum theory give insight into mind/body/soul interactions?