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The first annual
ISCID Online Summer Workshop has come to
a close. In order to give prospective participants a sense of what they
get in an ISCID Workshop, we have included the transcripts to several
chat sessions and presented a sample reading list. You can also view
the structure of the workshop, broken down into a "Reading Week"
and an "Interactive Week", below.
View
the sample reading list.
View the transcript of the chat with Paul Nelson.
View
the transcript of the chat with Jed Macosko.
View the transcript of the
chat with James Barham.
ISCID Online
Summer Workshop Schedule
Week 1: Reading
Week
July 29-August 4
- Students will
read articles and essays on scheduled days in preparation for week
two.
- Students will
be encouraged to take part in scheduled discussion board conversations
about selected essays.
- Students will
be expected to write a five to seven page response to any article
that catches their interest.
Week 2: Interactive
Week
August 5-10
August
5
- Jed Macosko:
Cellular complexity: A Survey (1:00-2:30 PM Eastern)
- John Bracht:
Inventions, Algorithms, and Biological Design (3:30-5:00 PM Eastern)
August
6
- Mike Behe: Intelligent
Design as an Alternative Explanation for the Existence of Biomolecular
Machines (1:00-2:30 PM Eastern)
August
7
- James Barham:
Does Natural Selection Explain Purpose in Nature (1:00-2:30 PM Eastern)
- John Bracht:
Kauffman's Investigations (3:30-5:00 PM Eastern)
August
8
- Kirk Durston:
Sequence space between functional proteins (1:00-2:30 PM Eastern)
- Paul Nelson:
On Common Descent (3:30-5:00 PM Eastern)
August 9
- William Dembski:
No Free Lunch (3:30-5:00 PM Eastern)
August
10
- Christopher Langan:
Ultimate Theories (3:30-5:00 PM Eastern)
- Final Announcements
(5:00-5:30 PM Eastern)
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