Academic Activity

 

Lectures and talks delivered

Four lectures delivered at the Summer Seminar "Reclaiming our Christian Heritage"

Budapest, August 1-14, 2023

Galileo, Darwin and the Limits of Science

Ave Maria University, February 22, 2022

The Metaphysical Problems of Evolution

Ave Maria University, February 21, 2022

Catholicism and Evolution

John Paul II Theological Society at St. Patric's College, Maynooth, November 16, 2020

Galileo, Darwin and the Limits of Science

Vancouver, BC, March 5, 2020

Lecture series on John Paul II's Theology of the Body

St. John's Seminary, Camarillo, CA, Feb.-March 2018.

Catholicism & Evolution: A Discussion on Faith and Origins. Part II

University of Mary, Tempe, AZ, 19 February 2016

Catholicism & Evolution: A discussion on faith and origins. Part I

University of Mary, Tempe, AZ, 16 December 2015

On the Unity of Human Knowledge and the Problem of Naturalism. Presentation to the students of the University of Mary

Bismarck, ND, 26 March 2015

Evolution and the Catholic Church. Presentation to the students of the University of Mary

Bismarck, ND, 26 March 2015

Evolution, Creation and Intelligent Design, Presentation to the Catholic Studies faculty

University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, 25 March 2015

On the Origin of the Human Body. Presentation to Campus Ministry Lunch Gathering

University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, 25 March 2015

Presentations at conferences

First gathering of Zentrum fur Biokomplexitat und NaturTeleologie

Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria, May 29 - June 1, 2019

My talk: Thomas Aquinas and Intelligent Design

First International Congress of Science and Faith

Bogota, 7-9 Nov. 2018

At the Congress I delivered three lectures:

1. The Limits of Natural Science and Theology

2. Thomas Aquinas and Theistic Evolution

3. Evolution and the Book of Genesis

Genesis, Aquinas, Christianity, and Evolution

Thomas Aquinas College, CA, September 22, 2018

A conference held at TAC cosponsored by the Claremont Center for Reason, Religion, and Public Affairs

Session 1:  “Interpreting Genesis chapters 1-2”

Session 2:  “Thomas Aquinas on Evolution”

Session 3:  “Catholic Doctrine on Evolution since Darwin”

Session 4:  “Does the Science of Human Evolution Disprove the Genesis Account of the Creation of Man?”

Discussion on the Philosophical Framework of Darwinian Evolution

Providence College, RI, February 18, 2017

The first event of the Imago Dei Center for the Disputed Question established at Providence College

Thomas Aquinas and Theistic Evolution at "Dominicans and Renewal of Thomism”

Thomistic Institute, Washington, DC, 1-5 July 2013 (2 July)

Conference participation

Can Science Inform our Knowledge of God?

Franciscan University of Steubenville, Discovery Institute, Steubenville, OH, 2 December 2011

Summer Seminar on Intelligent Design

Discovery Institute, Seattle, WA, 8-16 July 2011

Dominicans and the Challenge of Thomism

Thomistic Institute, Warsaw, 1-5 July 2010