ISCAST (NSW) - CASE  Lecture: Monday, Oct 18, 2010, 7.30 pm;
Main Meeting Room, New College, The University of NSW
 
Assoc.Professor David Cohen: “The Deep Time Issue - A Christian Geologist's Perspective” He is Head of School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences UNSW.
 
Parking is available on the adjacent suburban streets or in the multi-story car park at UNSW Gate 14 on Barker Street or . A light supper will follow the presentation and discussion.  Abstract and more information will be added later. For further details, please contact Prof. Peter Barry: email: p.barry@unsw.edu.au or phone: 9385 1101 (W) or mobile: 0419 243 685.

The 2010 ISCAST Victoria Annual Lecture will be held on Friday 29 October at Queen's College, Melbourne.  It is being held in conjunction with the ISCAST Intensive and will reflect the Intensive's theme "Who Says? The Use and Misuse of the Bible in an Age of Science and Technology".

The speaker will be Professor D. Gareth Jones of Otago University, New Zealand.

Prof. Jones, as Director of the Bioethics Centre and Professor of Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago, has an international reputation in his field and is emminently qualified from study and direct experience to speak on this subject.

The “Intensive” (mini conference) is planned for the weekend of the 30-31 October 2010. This will follow our annual lecture scheduled for Friday 29 October and both the lecture and conference will be held at Queen's College, Victoria.

The Intensive is titled “Who Says? – The Use and Misuse of the Bible in an Age of Science and Technology”. It will explore the way in which Christians apply scripture to the challenges thrown up by Science and technology. Prof D Gareth Jones from The University of Otago in NZ has agreed to be the Keynote speaker.

Groaning Creation: Biodiversity & the Bible

Date: 20 November, 9:30am—5:00pm
Venue: St Mark's, Anglican Church, 622 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, Vic
Cost: $40 ($25 concession)

Speakers include:

• Mick Pope, meteorologist
• Jessica Morthope, environmentalist
• Amar Breckenrridge, economist
• Jonathon Cornford, aid & development

Registration on-line at www.ethos.org.au 
Enquiries to Mick Pope: 0412 002 977 or Email

ISCAST (NSW) - CASE Lecture: “Deep Ancestry – The Journey of Man: Tracing the genetic journey of human beings from mitochondrial and Y-chromosome DNA studies”
Date: Monday, August 23, 2010, 7.30 pm
Venue: Main Meeting Room, New College, The University of NSW
Speaker: Dr Ian McFarlane 
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Thinkling: “New Developments in Military Technology: The convergence of Swords and Ploughshares?”
Date: 21 August 2010  
Presenter: James Garth
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Science Week Service at The Cathedral
Date: Sunday 15 August at 3pm 
Preacher: Rev Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision)
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The 65th Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA)
"Science, Faith, and Public Policy"
Date: July 30 - August 2, 2010,
Venue: The Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
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Science and Theology - the Way Forward in the 21st Century (Melbourne College of Divinity)
Date: Tuesday 6 July, from 10:45am.
The scholars include: Rev’d Merrill Kitchen, Rev’d Dr Stephen Ames, Professor John Pilbrow, Professor Bruce Tonge and Professor Paul Komesaroff.
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ISCAST (NSW) Meeting - God's Deputy: Divine Law and the Laws of Nature
Date: Monday 5 July 2010, 7.30 pm
Venue: Physics Library (Room 64), Old Main Building, The University of NSW
Speaker: Dr Larissa Aldridge
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CBE International Conference 2010
Date: 11-14 June 2010
Venue: Jasper Hotel, 489 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.
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Two Fires in the Belly
“Plato, Aristotle, Space, Art and matters arising." and “Gambling and Christian Responses to Risk Taking”
Date: Saturday 5 June 2010
Venue: Quartel’s house, 2A Barloa Rd, Mont Albert
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Syriac Christianity and the transmission of Greek science to the Arabs
Monday, 24 May 2010, 7.30 pm; Physics Library (Room 64), Old Main Building, University of NSW
Peter Eyland, a former Lecturer in the School of Physics at UNSW, has an MA in Ancient History from Macquarie University.
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Test of Faith DVD Presentations
1. Wednesday, April 28 Beyond Reason? Science, Faith and the Universe
2. Wednesday May 5 An Accident in the Making? Creation, Evolution & Interpreting Genesis
3. Wednesday May 12 Is Anybody There? Freedom to Choose
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Prof Peter Barry: An outline of the Test of FAITH course on science and Christianity
Date: Monday, 19 April 2010, 7.30 pm
Venue: Physics Library (Room 64), Old Main Building, UNSW
Presenter: Emeritus Professor Peter Barry
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Stewardship of the Rural Environment: Care, Use, Enjoy - and Rest!
Date: 17 April 2010
Presenter: Ross Macmillan, Senior Fellow in Agricultural Engineering, University of Melbourne
Venue: Brian Bayston’s home, 3 Lorne Grove, Camberwell, Vic
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Response to the Global Atheist Convention - Events by St Jude's Carlton and other churches in Melbourne
1. How to Respond to Dawkins and Atheism - 3 March
2. Atheism & Belief: The Difference Jesus Makes - 13 March
3. Can You Believe in God & Science? - 17 March
4. Philosophy in a Pub – 2 Philosophers in discussion: Does God Exist? - 18 March
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Test of Faith DVD Presentations
1. Sunday, February 28 Beyond Reason? Science, Faith and the Universe
2. Sunday March 7 An Accident in the Making? Creation, Evolution & Interpreting Genesis
3. Sunday March 14 Is Anybody There? Freedom to Choose
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Meeting with Professor Meshack, Vice-Chancellor of St Johns University, Dodoma, Tanzania
Date: Thursday, 21 January 2010
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: St Hillary's Anglican Church, John Street, Kew
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Soundings on Calvin and the Natural Order
Date: Saturday 12th December from 2:30 - 5:30pm
Venue: Collins Street Baptist Church, 174 Collins Street, Melbourne
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ISCAST Vic AGM and Test of Faith presentation
Date: Saturday 14 November 2009
Venue: East Camberwell Baptist Church, cnr Highfield and Hunter Rds, East Camberwell
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Conference: "Christianity and the Origin of Species"  (COSAC 2009)
Venue: Geelong Conference Centre
Adams Ct, Geelong, Australia
Date: 18-20 September 2009
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ISCAST (NSW)-CEN Lecture
Darwin's Compass: How evolution discovers the song of creation
Date: Monday 21 September 2009 at 7.30 pm
Speaker: Professor Simon Conway Morris, FRS, University of Cambridge
Venue: Wesley Centre, 220 Pitt St, Sydney
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ANNUAL LECTURE - VIC
Darwin’s Compass: How evolution discovers the song of creation
Date: Thursday 17 September 2009 at 8.00pm
Venue: Glen Waverley Anglican Church, 800 Waverley Road, Glen Waverley, Vic
Presenter: Professor Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University.
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ISCAST (NSW) - CASE Lecture
Genetics, Evolution and Christian Faith
Date: Thursday, 17 Sep 2009 at 7:30 pm
Speaker: Dr Graeme Finlay, University of Auckland
Venue: Common Room, New College, at the University of NSW
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ANNUAL LECTURE - TAS
Darwin’s Compass: How evolution discovers the song of creation
Date: Wednesday 16 September 2009 at 7.30pm
Venue: Stanley Burbury Theatre at the University of Tasmania
Presenter: Professor Simon Conway Morris of Cambridge University.
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ISCAST Excursion - Forests, Bushfires and Christian Theology: A Wicked Problem
Date: Saturday 25 July 2009 at 9:30am
Venue: Meet at Fernshaw at the foot of Black Spur, Healesville
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Rev. Dr. Stephen Ames will talk on "God and the natural sciences, with reflections on the recent atheist convention, and on the views of the well known atheist, Richard Dawkins."

He will be speaking at the Study Centre at Yarra Theological Union on Wednesday night 23 June at 8pm.

The best entry is via 34 Bedford St., Box Hill

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