Day 1
Sunday, March 5, 2000

MORNING SESSION: SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
What are the key aspects of the scientific understanding of aging and death? What are the possible ways of changing the process of aging?

Scientific Overview Speaker
Michael R. Rose, D.Phil. view presentation
University of California, Irvine
Open Discussion

Scientific Discussants
Leonard Hayflick, Ph.D.-University of California, San Francisco view presentation
Robert Arking, Ph.D.-Wayne State University view presentation
Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D.-Michigan State University Medical School view presentation 56k ISDN
Robert P. Lanza, M.D.-Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. view presentation
Open Discussion view presentation

AFTERNOON SESSION: THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
What are the key theological and religious traditions and perspectives that can inform and illuminate debates on the meaning and significance of aging and death, as well as address biotechnological efforts to extend life- or even biologically immortalize humans?

Theological Overview Speaker
Diogenes Allen, Ph.D.-Princeton Theological Seminary view presentation
Open Discussion

Theological Discussants Neil Gillman, Rabbi, Ph.D.-The Jewish Theological Seminary view presentation
Father Richard John Neuhaus-Institute on Religion and Public Life view presentation
Eleonore P. Stump, Ph.D.-Saint Louis University view presentation
Ted Peters, Ph.D.-Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Graduate Theological Union, and Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences view presentation
Open Discussion view presentation

PUBLIC EVENING DEBATE: SHOULD BIOMEDICINE SEEK TO TREAT DYING AS A DISEASE- AND TRY TO CURE IT?

Live Web Broadcast Cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Samuel Preston, Ph.D., Dean
and The Philadelphia Center for Religion and Science (www.pc4rs.org) and the Meta Lists for Science and Religion (www.meta-list.org) |
William Grassie, Ph.D., Director

Moderator Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D.-Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Health System view presentation
Science/Biotechnology Debaters
(Pro) Lee M. Silver, Ph.D.-Princeton University view presentation
(Con) Leon R. Kass, M.D., Ph.D.-University of Chicago view presentation
Theology/Ethics Debaters
(Pro) Ronald Cole-Turner, Ph.D., M.Div.-Pittsburgh Theological Seminary view presentation
(Con) Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.-The Hastings Center (Garrison, NY) view presentation
Open Discussion view presentation