Papers from the ASA 2008 Annual Meeting

DVD's of plenary sessions and CD's the audio of all sessions are available for purchase from Florian AudioVisual.
The audio files are also available as a podcast. Subscribe with iTunes or your favorite podcast client at http://www.asa3.org/ASAradio/ASA2008podcast.xml

Plenary Session I Friday Evening, 1 August 2008

Thomas Headland, "An Exile in Babylon: The Personal Story of a Christian Anthropologist in the Secular Academy"
(Introduction by Program Co-chair John Van Zytveld) Audio

Plenary Session II Saturday Morning, 2 August 2008

Douglas Diekema, "Love, Justice, and Humility: Reflections on Bioethics and Medicine"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session I-A Saturday Morning, 2 August 2008
Human Gender, Sexuality, and Sex: Gender Issues in the Sciences

Jennifer Wiseman, "Women Looking Up: Uplifting Women Who Study the Heavens and the Earth"
Audio

Carolyn Anderson, "Perspectives on Gender Issues within the Chemical Sciences"
Audio | Slides

James Rusthoven, "Gender Shifts and Influences on the Culture of Physician Practice"
Audio | Slides

Gwen Schmidt, "American Culture, Evangelical Subculture, and Women in the Sciences"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session I-B Saturday Morning, 2 August 2008
Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Global Warming

David R. Clements and Glen Carlson, "Conservation Science, Doing Right and Walking Humbly: An A Rocha Perspective"
Audio | Slides

Angela T. Kantola, "Loving One Another: Collaborating to Recover Endangered Fishes and Manage Water in the Upper Colorado River Basin"
Audio

Walt Partenheimer, "The Greening of PET (Plastics) Manufacture"
Audio

Jack C. Swearengen, "Anything But Trains? A Comparative Analysis of Alternatives Proposed for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Project"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session II-A Saturday Afternoon, 2 August 2008
Human Gender, Sexuality and Sex: What the Sciences Tell Us About Gender and Sexuality

Hessel Bouma III, "Neither Maile nor Female, God Created Them: Issues in Intersexuality"
Audio

Heather Looy, "Sexisms and Phobias: Emotional Valence of Sexual Variations"
Audio | Slides

Panel Discussion
Audio

Parallel Session II-B Saturday Afternoon, 2 August 2008
Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Global Warming

Jennifer Driesenga and Brian Medema, "Calvin College Carbon Emissions Footprint"
Audio

Dan Engel and Daniel Vanden Akker, "Calvin College Carbon Neutrality"
Audio

Christine Prins, "The First Steps to Sustainability: Characterizing the Plant Communities, Assessing the Rate of Carbon Sequestration, and Building a Model to Apply to a Projection into Future Sustainability"
Audio | Slides

Keith Miller, "Geologic Record of Global Climate Change: Context for Modern Global Warming"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session III-A Saturday Afternoon, 2 August 2008
Social Sciences, Anthropology, and Issues of Faith

Lisa McMinn, "Walking Justly and Doing Mercy: Teaching That Moves Beyond Ideas Toward Action"
Audio

Matthew Stanford, "Demon or Disorder: Perceptions of Serious Mental Illness in the Local Church"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session III-B Saturday Afternoon, 2 August 2008
The Natural Sciences and Issues of Faith

William Collier, "A Visual Roadmap to the Definition of Science and Its Relationship to Christianity"
Audio

George Murphy, "Theology and Time Machines"
Audio | Slides

Gary Patterson, "An Evangelical Natural Theology"
Audio | Slides

Benjamin McFarland, "Designing Proteins: The Creative Potential of Enthalpy and Entropy"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session III-C Saturday Afternoon, 2 August 2008
Students and Early Career Network Symposium

Bill Newsome, "Being Faithful in the Secular Academy: Addressing the 'Tough Questions'"
Audio (Part 1) | Audio (Part II) | Slides | Recommended Paper "Life of Science, Life of Faith"

Plenary Session III Saturday Evening, 2 August 2008

Larry Schweiger, "A Proper Human Response to Global Climate Change"
Audio

Plenary Session IV Sunday Morning, 3 August 2008

Jennifer Wiseman, "Our Magnificent Universe: Serving God by Exploring the Cosmos"
Audio

Worship Service Sunday Morning, 3 August 2008

John Mahaffy, "Walking Humbly with Your God"
Audio

Poster Session Sunday Morning, 3 August 2008

Hui-Yiing Chang, "The Intimate Connection between Physics and Theology"
Poster

Ko, "Pyongyang University of Science and Technology"
Poster

Paul Lange, "A Medical Science, Faith, and Ethics Practicum"
Poster

Ian Douglas Miller, "Alternative Fuels for Cars"
Poster

Parallel Session IV-A Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
Alternative Energy Sources and Their Impact; Engineering and Appropriate Technology

Tjalle Vandergraaf, "'From Each According to his Ability: to Each According to his Needs:' Karl Marx's Dictum as Applied to Energy Supply and Consumption in a North American Context"
Audio | Slides

A. J. (Chip) Mansure, "Geothermal Energy Update: The Solution, a Contributor, a Diversion, or Part of the Problem"
Audio | Slides

Annabelle Pratt, "Mitigating the Growth of the Internet's Energy Use through Improved Power Distribution"
Audio

Lynn Billman, "When All Things Can Be Made New: Greensburg, Kansas"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session IV-B Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
Medicine, Global Infectious Disease, and World Health

Kathleen Thiessen, "Water Fluoridation in the 21st Century: Doing Justly in Public Health"
Audio | Slides

Jay Hollman, "Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform"
Audio | Slides

Anne Carpenter, "Extracting Information from Images to Tackle Basic Biological Questions and World Health Problems"
Audio | Slides

James Smith, "International Scientific Education: The World Needs You! You Can Make a Difference!"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session IV-C Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
Science Teaching-Methods and Expectations

Leslie Wickman, "Faith Integration in the Science Classroom"
Audio | Slides

John Bloom, "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught in Public Schools?"
Audio

Brian Greuel, "Encouraging Excellence and Building Community in the Undergraduate Research Lab"
Audio | Slides

Thomas Robey, "Weblogs as Foundations for Discussions About Science and Christianity"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session V-A Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
Sustainable Agriculture and World Hunger

Martin Price, "Using Science and Technology to Help Subsistence Farmers in Developing Countries"
Audio

Carl Resler, "Fertilizing the Ocean with Artificial Upwelling"
Audio | Website

David Doornbos, "Comparison of Developed Country Sustainable Agriculture with Subsistence Systems of Cambodia: Which Technologies to Transfer?"
Audio | Slides

Ronald Vos, "New Hope for Africa"
Audio

George Crosby, "Managing Moringa for Leaf Biomass Production to Combat Malnutrition"
Audio

Parallel Session V-B Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
The Natural Sciences and Issues of Faith

Edward Davis, "Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953): His Religious Life and Thought"
Audio | Slides

Mark Shelhamer, "Divine Actions, Sensory Illusions, and Randomness"
Audio | Slides

David Newman, "How Do We Correct the Public Perceptions of Conflict between Scientific and Spiritual Reality?"
Audio

Kirk Bertsche, "A Survey of Modern Radiocarbon Dating"
Audio | Slides

Paul Seely, "Why Did God Create the Sun on the Fourth Day?"
Audio

Parallel Session V-C Sunday Afternoon, 3 August 2008
Science Careers Panel Students and Early Career Network Symposium

Matthew Stanford, Anne Carpenter, Annabelle Pratt, Carolyn Anderson and Susan Daniels, "Science Career Presentations"
Audio (Part 1) Audio (Part II)

Plenary Session V Sunday Evening, 3 August 2008

C. Dean Freudenberger, "Regenerative Design for Sustainable Agriculture: An Unprecendented Challenge"
Audio

Plenary Session VI Monday Morning, 4 August 2008

W. Kent Fuchs, "Engineering as Service"
Audio

Parallel Session VI-A Monday Morning, 4 August 2008
Ethical Issues in Science and Engineering

David Opderbeck, "Deconstructing Jefferson's Candle: Toward a Critical Realist Environmental Virture Ethics Approach to Information Policy"
Audio

Kenneth Funk II, "Technological Distraction"
Audio | Slides

James Rusthoven, "A Covenantal Model for Understanding the Patient-Supporter Relationship in the Clinical Encounter"
Audio

Parallel Session VI-B Monday Morning, 4 August 2008
Scientific and Theological Contributions to Cosmic History and the History of Life

Robert Mann, "The Puzzle of Existence: A New Question for Science and Theology"
Audio

Philip Marston, "Humility, James Clerk Maxwell's Perspective on Creation, and the Reaction of His Peers"

Carlos Pinkham, "Nine Phenomena That Recur throughout Cosmological, Abiological, and Biological Evolution"
Audio | Slides

Denis Lamoureux, "Evolutionary Creation: A Christian Approach to Evolution"
Audio | Slides

Parallel Session VI-C Monday Morning, 4 August 2008
Alternative Energy Sources and Their Impact: Engineering and Appropriate Technology

Leonard Bond, "Sustainability and an Energy System Approach"
Audio | Slides

Ruth Douglas Miller, "Wind Turbines for K-12 Education"
Audio | Slides

Joseph Sheldon, "Reducing Your Footprint: Build Right, Build Green"
Audio