Papers from the ASA 2009 Annual Meeting

DVD's of plenary sessions and CD's the audio of all sessions are available for purchase from Florian AudioVisual.

Plenary Session I Friday Evening, 31 July 2009

Charlie Duke, "The Race to the Moon" (Introduction by Mark Shelhamer)
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Plenary Session II Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009

Mario Beauregard, "The Neuroscience of Spirituality"
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Parallel Session I-A Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
Social Sciences

Matthew S. Stanford, "Perceptions and Knowledge of Mental Illness in the Local Church: A Survey of Texas Baptist Pastors"
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Byron R. Johnson, "Religiosity and Delinquency: A Meta Analysis"
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Sung Joon Jang, "Why Do Black Youth Use Drugs Less than White Youth"
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Wade C. Rowatt, "Associations among Religiousness, Social Attitudes, and Prejudice in a National Random Sample of American Adults"
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Parallel Session I-B Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
Science and Theology

Paul H. Seely, "Does the Bible Use Phenomenal Language?"
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Carol A. Hill, "The Worldview Approach to Biblical Interpretation and Origins: What It Is and How It Differs from Accommodation"
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Denis O. Lamoureux, "The Sin-Death Problem: Toward an Evolutionary Creationist Solution"
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Parallel Session I-C Saturday Morning, 1 August 2009
History of Science

Bethany N. Sollereder, "The Darwin-Gray Exchange"
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Michael N. Keas, "Darwinism, Fundamentalism, and R. A. Torrey: Issues in Science and Christianity from 1889 to 1925"
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Steve A. Badger, Pentecostal Responses to Evolution: A Historical Overview"
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Plenary Session III Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009

Gerald Cleaver, "The Multiverse--Next Step in Our Growing Perception of Reality?"
Robert Mann, "Believing in Everything?"
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Parallel Session II-A Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Social Sciences (continued)

Andrew Whitehead, "God or Greed? The 'American Dream,' Religion, and White-Collar Crime"
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Michael G. Tenneson, "Measuring Pentecostal Attitudes and Beliefs about Origins"
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Parallel Session II-B Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Science and Theology (continued)

Rodney J. Whitefield, "The Fourth Creative 'Day' of Genesis: Answering the Questions about the Sun and the Moon"
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Ray Williams, "What Kind of Days Are These?"
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Dick Fischer, "Historical Adam"
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Symposium I Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Christianity and the Possibility of a Multiverse

Gerald Cleaver, "The String Multiverse, the Cosmological Anthropic Principle, and Anselm's Ontological Argument"
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Robert Bishop, "The Doctrine of Creation and Cosmology"
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Bruce Gordon, "Multiversal Misgivings: Negating the Naturalistic Universal Possibilism of Multiverse Cosmology"
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Dave Rogstad, "Does the Multiverse Eliminate the Need for God?"
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Summary Panel Discussion
Panelists: Robert Bishop, Gerald Cleaver, Bruce Gordon, Robert Mann, Dave Rogstad
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Parallel Session III-A Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Philosophy, Religion, and Science

John W. Hall, "How to Think about Chance and Purpose"
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Don Petcher, "Methodological Naturalism: Necessary for Science or Superfluous"
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Paul Arveson, "Zero, One, Two, Three: The Dimensions of Relgious Though"
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Parallel Session III-B Saturday Afternoon, 1 August 2009
Science and the Church

Fred S. Hickernell, "A Church Course on Science and Faith for Adults"
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John C. Munday, "Elements of the Scientific Method in Scripture"
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Ken Wolgemuth and Gregory S. Bennett, "Pastors Need to Hear from Christian Geologists"
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Worship Service Sunday Morning, 2 August 2009

Michael Abbaté, "Gardening Eden -- How Creation Care Will Change Your Faith, Your Life, and Our World"
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Plenary Session IV Sunday Morning, 2 August 2009

James Tour, "Nanotechnology and Standing as a Christian in the Academy"
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Parallel Session IV-A Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Environment

Leslie Wickman, "Cultivating a Personal Christian Environmental Ethic"
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Craig Rusbult, "Teaching Christian Stewardship using Design Method"
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Keith B. Miller, "Natural History as a Foundation for Creation Stewardship"
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Lin Allen, "Sonar Training: Stewardship and the Supreme Court"
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Parallel Session IV-B Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Education

Kimberly C. Dawes, "Nature Study for K-12 Education"
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William B. Collier, "Integration of Christian Worldview into Science Teaching: Teaching Philosophy of Science to General Chemistry Lab Students"
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Jerry R. Bergman, "A Survey of How the Subject of Origins Is Taught"
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Ide Trotter, "Science vs. Religion in the Controversy over Texas Science Textbook Standards"
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James Peterson, "Better Thinking through Chemistry: A Theological Prescription"
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Symposium II Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Origins: Part I

Loren Haarsma and Bruce Gordon, "Four Myths about Intelligent Design and Four Myths about Theistic Evolution"
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Dennis Venema, "Human Genomics: Vestiges of Eden or Skeletons in the Closet?"
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C. John Collins, "Were Adam and Eve Historical Figures? Yes, Indeed!"
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Daniel Harlow, "Adam and Eve as Symbolic Figures in Biblical Literature"
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John Schneider, "Genetic Science and Christianity's Story of Human Origins: An Aesthetic 'Supra-Lapsarianism'"
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Parallel Session V-A Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Environment (continued)

Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, "On Eschewing a Policy-Prescriptive Role for Science in Environmental Controversies"
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Jay Hollman, "The Ethics of Meat Consumption"
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Steven G. Hall, "Use of Bio-engineered Artificial Reefs for Ecological Restoration and Carbon Sequestration"
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Sean M. Cordry, "The Spilling Quiver: Sunshine, the Commons, and the Temple of the Lord"
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Parallel Session V-B Sunday Afternoon, 2 August 2009
Science and Technology in Service of the Poor

Steven W. Bradley, "The Role of Comparative Advantage, Distributed Agency, and Distributed Knowledge in Sustainable Economic Development"
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Brian Thomas, "Microhydro-Generation of Electricity: Providing Physical and Spiritual Light in Honduras"
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Walter L. Bradley, "Serving the Poor by Making Better Cook Stoves"
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Stanton Greer, "Coconut Composites: New Products to Bless Poor Coconut Farmers"
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Plenary Session V Sunday Evening, 2 August 2009

Perla Manapol, "South to South: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Poverty Alleviation"
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Parallel Session VI-A Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Christian Perspectives on the Soul

Edward B. Davis, "Evolution and the Image of God: Historical Reflections on Science, Morality, and Human Nature"
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Sara Joan Miles, "Body and Soul: Biological Theories of Generation and Theological Theories of Ensoulment"
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Rodney J. Scott, "Relating Body and Soul: A Collision between Theology, Science, and Good Intentions"
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Parallel Session VI-B Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Science and Technology in Service of the Poor (continued)

Dominic M. Halsmer, "Worldview by Affordance-Based Reverse Engineering of Complex Natural Systems"
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William M. Jordan, "A Christian Approach to the Ethics of International Development Projects"
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Parallel Session VI-C Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Miscellaneous

Kenell J. Touryan, "Science and Faith Issues in Islam: Is There an Avenue of Rapprochement between ASAers and Practicing Muslim Scientists?"
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Harry Lee Poe, "Edgar Allan Poe's Big Bang Theory and the Power of Imagination"
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Symposium II (continued) Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Origins: Part II

Robert Kaita, "Personal Computer Application Programs as Tools for Conceptualizing Aspects of Evolutionary Theory"
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Richard Sternberg, "The Generation of Essential RNA Messages from Pseudogene Transcripts by Exemplar Causation"

Douglas Axe, "The Information Required for Metabolic Innovation, and Why the Darwinian Mechanism Is Not Apt to Be Its Source"

Robert J. Marks II and William A Dembski, "Evolutionary Informatics: Measuring the Cost of Success"
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David Campbell, "The Origin of Higher Taxa"
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David Snoke, "Is It Wrong to Quantify Wonder?"
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Parallel Session VII-A Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Astronomy

Joseph L. Spradley, "Importance of the Moon for Life on Earth"
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Rollin A. King, "Chemistry in Counterfactual Universes"
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Richard G. McClure, "The Star of Bethlehem: How a Near-Earth Asteroid Explains the Magi's Star"

Parallel Session VII-B Monday Morning, 3 August 2009
Science and Theology (continued)

Janel M. Curry, "God and Nature: An Analysis of Post Katrina and Asian Tsunami Sermons"
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William A. Dembski, "The Retroactive Effects of the Fall"
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