SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Friday, 21 October 2005
16:00 - 19:00 Registration
Aula of the Library of the Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Calea Victoriei 125
Registred participants will benefit of all social programs.
Saturday, 22 October 2005
Aula of the Library of the Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Calea Victoriei 125
9:00 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 11:00 Opening Session
10:00 - 10:15 Eugen Simion, president of the Romanian Academy
10:15 - 10:30 His Beatitude Teoctist, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
10:30 - 10:45 Adrian Iorgulescu, minister of Culture and Cults
10:45 – 11:00 Charles L. Harper Jr., Senior Vice President of the John Templeton
Foundation
11:30 - 13:15 Session I
11:30 - 12:05 Basarab Nicolescu
Towards an Apohatic Methodology of the Dialog between Science and Theology
12:05 - 12:40 Trinh Xian Thuan
Science and Buddhism: Gentle Bridges
12:40 - 13:15 Thierry Magnin
A Re-examination of Blaise Pascal Question on Man, Between Modern Physics and the
Bible
14:30 - 16:00 Session II
14:30 – 15:05 Michel Cazenave
Science moderne et apophase
15:05 – 15:35 Adrian Lemeni
The Apophaticism-an Epistemological Interface in the Science-Religion Dialog
15:35 – 16:00 Solomon Marcus
Does Science Have a Spiritual Dimension?
16:20-18:40 Session III
16:20-16:55 Pauline Rudd
Functional Complexity in Biology and Religion
16:55-17:30 Pranab Dass
Emergence, Discovery and a Platonic Perspective on Complex Systems
17:30-17:05 Argyris Nicolaidis
Elements of a Relational Ontology in Science and Theology
18:05-18:20 E. Danezis, E. Theodossiou, M. Dimitrijevic
Cosmological Implications of the “Hexameron” of Saint Basilius the Great
18:20-18:40 Magdalena Stavinschi
“Science and Religion in Romania”, a Pilot Program for Orthodoxy
Sunday, 23 October 2005
Patriarchal Palace
Bucharest, Aleea Dealul Mitropoliei, nr. 25
14:30 - 16:05 Session IV
14:30 - 15:05 Charles Harper
The Theology of T. F. Torrance and the Future of the Science-Theology Dialog within
Orthodox Christianity: Reasons why the Science-Theology Dialog Engages Vital Issues &
Challenges for the Future.
15:05 - 15:30 Razvan Andrei Ionescu
A Methodological Comparison between Contemporary Science and Orthodox Theology
15:30 - 16:05 Alexei Nesteruk
Towards a Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science
16:30 - 18:45 Session V
16:30 - 17:05 Doru Costache
The Unifying Ladder of St Maximus the Confessor. Going Upwards with Everything You
Are
17:05 – 17:30 Gheorghe Stratan
Max Planck about the Problem of Causality in Physics and its Implications on Relations
between Science and Religion
17:30 - 17:55 Gennaro Auletta
Event, Covariance, and Evolution: Peirce and Whitehead's Philosophies in the Light of
Modern Science
17:55 - 18:30 Lazar Puhalo
Models of Reality as Sources of Conflict
18:30 – 18:45 Elizabeth Rauscher
Multidimensional Geometries and Consciousness: Implications for Synthesis of Science and
Theology
Tuesday, 25 October
9:00- 10:55 Session VI
9:00 - 9: 30 Teodosie, Archibishop of Tomis
The Human Spirit from the Theologic and Psyhologic Perspective
9:30 - 10:05 Jean Kovalevsky
Un croyant face à l’évolution dans l’Univers
10:05 - 10:40 Christopher Corbally
Taking Science Seriously and Talking about God
10:40 – 10:55 E. Danezis, E. Theodosiou, I. Gonidakis, M. Dimitrijevic
Theology and Modern Physics
11:15 - 13:00 Session VII
11:15 - 11:50 Jean Staune
L’apophatisme dans la Science d’aujourd’hui
11:50 - 12:10 Richard Amoroso
The Physical Basis of Spirituality: Common Ground for Dialog
12:10 - 12:25 Milan S. Dimitrijevic and Efstratios Theodossiou
On the Reform of Julian Calendar on Ecumenical Congress in Constantinopole in 1923
12:25 - 12:40 Renata Tatomir
The Oriental Studies and Sciences in Dialogue with Orthodoxy. The Cases of Egyptology
and Coptology”
12:40 – 13:00 Arnold Lebeuf
… The age of Moses
14:15 - 16:00 Session VIII
14:15 – 14:50 Khalil Chamcham
Is the God “Hypothesis” Unnecessary in Science?
14:50 - 15:10 Oana Iftime
Apophatism in Life Sciences and its Implications in Bioethics
15:10 - 15:30 Paul Koroluk
“As If” or “I Believe”: Models for the Seen, and for the Unseeable
15:30 - 15:45 Nicolae Bulz
Qualia – Possible Turning Point between Transdiciplinary Research, Integrative Science
Prospect, and Theology
15:45 - 16:00 Ioana Carmen Popescu and Radu Jecu
The Bound between God Gift of Love and the Human Body Chemical Response
16:20 - 17:45 Session IX
16:20 -16:45 Ştefan Tausan-Matu
Bakhtin’s Dialogism, a Bridge between Artificial Intelligence and Orthodox Theology
16:45 - 17:15 Radu Constantinescu
Determinism Chaos and Divine Providence
17:15 – 17:30 Veselka Trajkovska
Reform of the Julian Calendar and Pan-Orthodox Congress in Constantinople in 1923
17:30 – 17:45 Magdalena Stavinschi – Closing farewell