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2009: 8 April, Lecture on divine action and the scientific worldview, in a series of lectures on Intelligent Design, Bellem (Gent), Belgium. (more info to follow)


2008: http://www.protestant.nl/discussies/wetenschap-heeft-groter-invloed-op-geloof-dan-geloof-op-wetenschap.

2008: Interview for Interreligieuze Werkplaats.

2008: 5-7 September, Organization & 3 lectures of three-day conference for "Christophorus Planungsgruppe" on evolution and religion, including creationism and Intelligent Design, Bischöfliche Akademie des Bistums Aachen, Germany.

2008: 21-22 June, Lecture on "The End of Worldviews", at conference about Karl Heim, Bad Boll.

2008: 17 May, Lecture and plenary discussion on the background of creationism and Intelligent Design, Aalst, Belgium. 

2008: 14 May, Lecture on science and religion for the European Society for Catholic Theology, Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium. 

2008: 30 April - 5 May, ESSSAT Conference ECST XII, Sigtuna, Sweden; see http://www.esssat.org for more details.

2008: 25 April, Invited lecture about the American background of creationism and Intelligent Design, at conference A Spiritual Invasion?, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg.

2008: 17 April, Public Lecture "Science or Religion: A False Dilemma?", Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium.

2008: 16 April, Plenary debate and introductory lecture on "The Ideological Background of Intelligent Design", Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (HIW; Institute of Philosophy), Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium. 

2008: 2 April, undergraduates seminar on Shulman Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, USA. 

2008: 1 April, Shulman Lecture, invited guest lecture "On the intersections between religious cosmologies and the sciences from the perspective of Christian Theology", Yale University, New Haven, USA.

2008: 5 March, Lecture for science students on "Science or Religion: A False Dilemma?", Catholic University, Louvain, Belgium.

2008: 20 February, Lecture on "Is it still reasonable to talk about a personal God?", Zenderen.  

2008: 23 January, Lecture on "atheism", Hillegom. 

2008: 9 January, Lecture for Flemish Inspectors of Religious Education on the question whether Intelligent Design should be discussed in religion classes; Catholic University Louvain, Belgium.


2007: 18 December, participation in plenary discussion on science popularisation during the presentation of the Vlaamse Scriptieprijs, Ghent, Belgium. 

2007: 27 November, Closing Lecture of a series of lectures about my book "God en de menselijke maat", Malden, the Netherlands.

2007: 25 September, Lecture on religion & science, Enschede.

2007: 9 September, Lecture on the occasion of the opening of the Academic Year 2007-2008, NHL Theologie, Enschede. 

2007: 16 August, Discussion with prof.dr. Herman Philipse on "the (ir)rationality of religion", Leiden. 

2007: 11-12 June, Presentation "Finding Our Place In the Universe: Science, Religion, and the Struggle for Human Uniqueness", at NWO-conference "Things: Material Religion and the Topography of Divine Spaces", Amsterdam.

2007: 24 May, Presentation and discussion for "Studentenpastoraat", Amsterdam. 

2007: 18-20 May, Presentation on the role of chance in science & religion, conference Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain. 

2007: 10-13 May, Council Meeting with Organizing Committee, ESSSAT, Sigtuna, Sweden. 

2007: 4-6 May, Lecture on Intelligent Design, Evangelische Akademie Schönborn.

2007: 20-22 April, Presentation on "Models in Science & Theology", conference Evangelische Akademie Bonn. 

2007: 8 March, Guest lecture on religion & science, Wolffert van Borselen Scholengemeenschap, Rotterdam. 

2007: 14 February, Lecture about my book "God en de menselijke maat" during meeting ("classicale vergadering") of the "Hervormde classis Katwijk", Rijnsburg. 

2007: 25 January, Lecture about the rationality of religion, organized by "Studentenvereniging Panoplia" on the occasion of their Dies Natalis, The Hague. 

2007: 20 January, Lecture about What the Bleep Do We Know?, Filmmuseum Amsterdam.


2006: 20 November, American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Conference, Washington DC (18-21 November), lecture on "Intelligent Design & Theology: What Place for the Creator", for Open and Relational Theologies session. (PDF).

2006: 31 October, lecture in Hillegom on my book God en de menselijke maat.

2006: 26-27 October, organizing with Prof. Willem B. Drees, Dr. Tony Watling, and Ms. Olga Crapels of conference Religion, Science and Public Concern: Discourses on Ethics, Ecology, and Genomics, Leiden University, the Netherlands. See HERE for the conference website.

2006: 4 October, Small lecture during an evening about What the Bleep Do We Know? Sense and Nonsense about the Interaction of Science and Spirituality, with prof. Hans Gerding at the Library Theater (bibliotheektheater) Rotterdam. Organized by Studium Generale Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Stichting Filosofie Oost-West, and Bibliotheek Rotterdam. (PDF).

2006: 26 August, Half-page interview in NRC Handelsblad, written by Sander Voormolen, about evolution and Intelligent Design. (PDF).

2006: 26 August, 2-page interview in Friesch Dagblad about my Dutch book, written by Tjerk de Reus. (PDF).

2006: 22-23 August, Participation & invited plenary lecture at a conference about the relation between religion and science in Leuven, Belgium. (Niet los van God? Geloof en Wetenschap). The title of the lecture is: Is Intelligent Design Creationism? The programme of the conference can be found HERE.

2006: 8-13 July, Invitation to participate as a younger scholar at the Conference of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Cambridge, UK.

2006: publication of article ‘Intelligent Design als brug tussen natuurwetenschap, theologie, en maatschappij: Over de ideologie achter de Amerikaanse ID-beweging’ (‘Intelligent Design as bridge between science, theology, and society: About the ideology behind the American ID-movement’), T.F.: Blad van de Theologische Faculteit, Universiteit Leiden (the local journal of the Faculty of Theology, Leiden University), 35:2 (July 2006), 26-43.

2006: 6-7 May, Invited lecture on "Intelligent Design in America, the Netherlands, and Germany" at the Bischöfliche Akademie of the Episcopate Aachen in Aachen, conference on "Blindes Würfeln oder Gottes Plan? Was steuert die Evolution?" ('Playing Dice Blindly, or a Divine Plan? What is Driving Evolution?'). (PDF).

2006: 28-30 April, German lecture & workshop about divine action & Intelligent Design at the conference Gegen die Beliebigkeit und auf der Suche nach Wahrheit? Der Standort der Theologie im Dialog mit den Naturwissenschaften in einem (post-)modernen Zeitalter ("Against Arbitrariness and Searching for Truth? The Place of Theology in the Dialogue with the Natural Sciences in a (Post)modern Era"), Kronberg-Schönberg (near Frankfurt), Germany.

2006: 28 April, response to a lecture by prof. René van Woudenberg on Naturalism at a at meeting of the NVGW (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Godsdienstwijsbegeerte; "Dutch Society for the Philosophy of Religion"), Amsterdam.

2006: 22 March, public lecture on "Creation versus Evolution?", De Regenboog, Nuenen (near Eindhoven).

2006: 17-18 March, Invited participation in a conversation about the nature and future of religion & science in Europa; Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain, Germany.

2006: 11 March, 2x workshop presentation about Intelligent Design, at Hydepark Seminary, Doorn, the Netherlands. The Powerpoint presentation (with Dutch audio narration) can be downloaded HERE as a ZIP-archive (needs to be unpacked) of approximately 8 MB, unpacked 17 MB; presentation length is approximately 20 minutes.

2006: 7 February, Participating in a debate about Pure Coincidence? Intelligent Design vs. Evolution, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

2006: 4 February, Taking part in a documentary film on time travel, highlighting the consequences of time travel for religion & science; the documentary is directed by Mirko Dreiling, a student of the Amsterdam Film Academy.


2005: 16 December, in charge of organizing of a symposium for The Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER) on the question: “Is Intelligent Design science or theology?”, University Leiden. See the Symposium website.

2005: 14 December, a small lecture on the theological implications of the lichen-experiment of the European Space Agency (ESA), Space Expo, Noordwijk. (PDF).

2005: Plenary Lecture for the Dutch Society for Philosophy of Religion (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Godsdienstwijsbegeerte, NVGW), 2 December 2005, Utrecht, on the question: Can we still speak reasonably about God in personal terms? (PDF).

2005: Paper on Chapter 6 of Angela Roothaan's book Terugkeer van de Natuur: De Betekenis van Natuurervaring voor een Nieuwe Ethiek (Kampen: Klement 2005). Vereniging Thomas van Aquino ("Thomas Aquinas Society"), Utrecht, the Netherlands, 29 October 2005. (PDF).

2005: Lecture on Marcilio Ficino and the Design Argument (including Intelligent Design). Small symposium with dr. Rijk Schipper. Click HERE to download the flyer as Word-file. Faculties of Theology and Philosophy, Leiden University, the Netherlands, 28 October 2005. (PDF).

2005: 22 October, lecture on Big Bang and Creation, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (ISVW; "International School for Philosophy"), Leusden, the Netherlands. (PDF).

2005: "God blijft onbereikbaar: Theologische bedenkingen bij intelligent design", interview in Bres: Tijdschrift voor wetenschap en verwondering, 233 (August/September 2005), 40-43.

2005: Paper presentation, Dead or not yet? Barth's Critique of Natural Theology and the Relation between Science and Theology, presented at the conference Theologie und Naturwissenschaften: Neue Ansätze der Forschung und des Dialogs, 20-22 June 2005, Evangelische Akademie im Rheinland, Bonn, Germany. See: http://www.ev-akademie-rheinland.de.

2005: On 25 May 2005, participant at discussion panel of Studium Generale about the question of animal rights at the Van Hall Institute in Leeuwarden. Together with Mr. Eugenie de Bordes (professor of 'Dier en Recht' [Animals and Rights] at Utrecht University) and prof. Frans Brom (professor of Ethics of the Faculty of Life Sciences at Wageningen University and professor of Ethics at the Faculty of Theology of Utrecht University).

2005: Lecture De Utopie van de integratie: Een zoektocht naar de wortels van de hedendaagse discussie over de verhouding tussen godsdienst en wetenschap for HOVO (higher education for seniors) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, 9 March 2005. This lecture builds upon the article published in Civis Mundi (see below). (PDF).


2004: Meeting Report of the Conference of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), in Boston, 18-22 August 2004, in ESSSAT News 14:3 (October 2004), 4-5. (PDF).

2004: ‘On Philosophical Quicksand: A Closer Look at Huchingson’s Model of the Pandemonium Tremendum,’ at Metanexus (http://www.metanexus.org) (A response to the book by James E. Huchingson, Pandemonium Tremendum: Chaos and Mystery in the Life of God. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2001, presented at the Conference of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Toronto in November 2001). (Link)

2004: Introductory Lecture on Religion and Science: Conflict or Conversation? delivered on 2. March 2004 at a local church in Krimpen aan de IJssel. The lecture is in Dutch. (Link).

2004: Short lecture (in Dutch) on Theology and/of Soil Management (Theologie en/van Bodemmanagement). This lecture was delivered at a meeting of the Sectie Bodemmanagement van de Vereniging Voor Milieukundigen (the Section Soil Management of the Society of Ecologists) at Houten, on 25. May 2004. It is a lecture about the Bioclear-report (see below). (Link).

2004: Interview from March 2004 for Hoe?Zo! Radio about my dissertation. The interview is an MP3-file of about 7,5 MB. (MP3).


2003: Report for Bioclear b.v. on the possible constructive role of theology in soil management: Staande op Heilige Grond: Een discussiestuk over de rol van theologie en godsdienst in bodemmanagement als bijdrage aan beleids- en besluitvorming. (PDF).

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