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THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AND SCIENCE

FEBRUARY 1, 2020 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN , DEVOS CHAPEL SCHEDULE SPEAKER BIOS

Dr. Edward B. Davis

9:00 - 9:15 A.M. SCOTT MANOR PROFESSOR OF THE OF SCIENCE, MESSIAH COLLEGE Welcome and Introduction Drexel University, BS (Physics); Indiana University, MA & PhD (History & of Science)

9:15 - 9:45 A.M. TIM SANSBURY Categories for Thinking about Science and Prof. Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis is Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College, Affiliate Fellow in the Department of the History of Science at Univer- 9:45 - 10:45 A.M. TED DAVIS sity of Oklahoma, and Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. With Galileo and the Garden of Eden Michael Hunter, Davis edited The Works of Robert Boyle, 14 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 1999-2000), and a separate edition of Robert Boyle’s great treatise on and nature, A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1996). 10:45 - 11:00 A.M. In 2020, Routledge will reissue his edition of The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer Coffee Break (Garland Publishing, 1995). Author of dozens of articles and essays about religion and science in the Scientific Revolution and modern America, his study of modern Jonah stories was featured on two BBC radio programs. A recently completed book about the 11:00 - 11:50 A.M. LINDSAY BRUCE/JOSHUA BRUCE The Future of Human Genome Editing religious activities and beliefs of prominent American scientists from the period between the two world wars is under review at an academic press. He is currently writing a book about Christianity and early modern science aimed at a general audience, while serving 11:50 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. as an advisor to forthcoming exhibits on science and religion at the National Museum Lunch Break (audience on their own, provided for participants) of American History (Smithsonian) and the Museum of the .

1:00 - 1:50 P.M. LUCINA UDDIN/TIM SANSBURY Cognitive Neuroscience: An approach for understanding the brain, mind, and consciousness Dr. Lindsay Bruce

BIOLOGIST, WESTMINSTER ACADEMY Florida Atlantic University, PhD (Integrative Biology) 2:00 - 2:50 P.M. THOMAS CHESNES/LARRY TROTTER Change, Adaptation, and Resilience in Natural Systems

Lindsay Bruce teaches AP Biology, Honors Biology, and Biology at Westminster Academy. 3:00 - 3:30 P.M. ALL PRESENTERS/RESPONDENTS She holds a PhD from Florida Atlantic University in Integrative Biology, where she at- Q&A tempted to find the fountain of youth in fruit flies. Failing that, she added knowledge to the unfolding biological story of oxidative stress and its role in aging and neurodegeneration. 3:30 - 4:00 P.M. TIM SANSBURY She has presented and published on a variety of topics, including aging, the gut micro- Concluding Remarks, “Have No Fear” biome, and biotechnology-related teaching practices. Lindsay lives with her high school sweetheart and Knox seminary professor husband, Josh, and their two rambunctious boys. Dr. Lucina Uddin Dr. Larry Trotter ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF PRACTICAL , KNOX NEUROSCIENTIST, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY; PASTOR, FLORIDA COAST CHURCH University of California Los Angeles, PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience); Duke, BS (Mathematics); Westminster, MAR & MDiv; Regent New York University (Child Study Center) University, PhD (Communication)

After receiving a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the psychology department at Larry is currently the pastor at Florida Coast Church in Pompano, Florida. A native the University of California Los Angeles, Dr. Uddin completed a postdoctoral fellow- of Ohio, Larry Trotter moved to Fort Lauderdale with his family in 1973. In his last ship at the Child Study Center at New York University. For several years she worked year of high school, he became a Christian at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. He as a faculty member in Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at the Stanford University attended Duke University and then Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. While at School of Medicine. She joined the psychology department at the University of Mi- seminary, Larry met and married Sandy in 1985. Daughter of a Southern Baptist ami in 2014. Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, Dr. Uddin’s research exam- evangelist and a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Sandy did her bachelor’s and mas- ines the organization of large-scale brain networks supporting executive functions. ter’s degrees at Samford University and taught for three years with Mission to the Her current projects focus on understanding dynamic network interactions underlying World at Christ’s College in Taipei, Taiwan. cognitive flexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. She- haspub lished over 100 scholarly articles on these topics. After Larry’s graduation from Westminster, the couple moved to Glen Burnie, Mary- land, where Larry was associate pastor of a new PCA church and where their first daughter, Whitney, was born. In 1989, they accepted a call from Mission to the World to plant churches in Mexico City, where they served for four years and where their Dr. Thomas Chesnes second daughter, Natalia, was born. PROFESSOR/CHAIR, BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, PALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY In 1995, the Trotters moved to Mexico’s second largest city, Guadalajara. During their University of Florida, BS (Zoology), MS & PhD (Environmental twenty years there, God has raised up five congregations, which are working to start Engineering Sciences) more new churches. Larry served as the pastor of two of the congregations. In 2007, he earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. From 2011 to 2016, he Dr. Tom Chesnes specializes in estuarine and field biology, earning his Bachelor’s de- also served as the Mission to the World Country Director for Mexico. In 2016, Larry gree in Zoology and Masters and Doctorate in Environmental Engineering Sciences and Sandy moved back to South Florida to start Florida Coast Church. from the University of Florida. He currently serves as Professor and Chair of the Biology Department at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida. He has worked in estuaries and wetlands throughout the tropics, studying vertebrate, invertebrate and plant species. He has researched, presented, and published work in a variety of areas including seagrass and invertebrate ecology, fisheries management, the invasive Burmese python in the Everglades, institutional sustainability, higher education, and the interface between science and religion. He has collaborated and coauthored works with undergraduate students in research, resulting in a number of peer reviewed publications and professional presentations. He is a Florida native and avid outdoorsman. Dr. Joshua Bruce Dr. Scott Manor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CHRISTIAN AND CLASSICAL STUDIES, PRESIDENT, KNOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY KNOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Covenant College, BA; Covenant Seminary, MA; University of Florida, BA; Stetson University College of , JD; University of Edinburgh, MTh, PhD Knox Theological Seminary, MDiv; University of Edinburgh, PhD

Josh Bruce was born and raised in South Florida and spent five years practicing law Dr. Scott Manor in the importance of understanding how our Christian her- as an attorney with a South Florida law firm before undertaking graduate work in his- itage informs our today, especially as it relates to the historical and theological torical theology and classics at Knox and the University of Edinburgh. Josh is married developments of the early church. to his childhood sweetheart, Dr. Lindsay Bruce, a scientist, and they have two young boys who make their lives go-round at an exhausting speed. Born and raised in central Florida, Dr. Manor completed his PhD in Early Christi- anity at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. In the year prior to coming to Knox Josh is a firm believer in God’s ability to use and strong coffee to change Seminary, he held a post-doctoral position in research and language study at the Institut lives. Josh has a background in classical Christian education as both a student and Catholique de Paris. The primary focus of his research is on the relationship of textual instructor and is always excited to see students grow in their appreciation of the virtues authority to issues of and heresy in the early church. He has been published and truths found in the classical . Whether it is teaching Augus- in various journals including Studia Patristica, Vigiliae Christianae, and The Expository Times. tine’s Confessions or discussing Dante’s Divine Comedy, Josh enjoys every opportunity to encourage his students to declare and demonstrate of Jesus Christ, the In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Rebecca and sons, Iren and Clem- author, and finisher of our faith, and the perfect embodiment of truth and virtue. ent, traveling, running, and sailing.

Josh’s current research focuses on legal issues in the Christian tradition and he has given academic papers at a number of international conferences and has definitely never gotten lost in the Madrid airport on his way to any of them. His work has been Dr. Tim Sansbury published in scholarly journals including Studia Patristica and The Expository Times. Josh PROVOST, KNOX THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY also blogs occasionally about issues as diverse and important as early Christian judicial appeals to Caesar (Augustine said that Paul did it so we can too) and what Aristotle Georgia Tech, BS; Reformed Theological Seminary, MA; Princeton Theological Seminary, PhD (Philosophy and Theology) might say about potato chips (Aristotle would probably support them, but only in moderation). In his free time, Josh enjoys running on the beach, reading novels, and watching British television with his wife. Dr. Tim Sansbury is interested in promoting coherence in faith and doctrine, and es- pecially in the area of science and theology. His research specialties include the philos- ophy of science, the nature of time and eternity, and the relationship between divine and human and natural causation. His vocational career has been spent teaching and working in Christian education broadly, at all levels, seeking to bring a reasoned approach to preparing thoughtful believers who seek God in all endeavors.

A Miami native, Dr. Sansbury’s undergraduate degree is in Physics from Georgia Tech, and was followed by an M.A. at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary. His dissertation on the eternity of God is published under the title Beyond Time: Defending God’s Transcendence.

Dr. Sansbury is married to Tesa and has three daughters, Anna, Emily, and Paige. A natural Floridian, he enjoys fishing, boating, and reminiscing about Dan Marino and relevant Miami Dolphin’s teams of the past. 5555 NORTH FEDERAL HIGHWAY FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 33308 KNOXSEMINARY.EDU | 954.771.0376