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REMINDER: Evolution vs.Creationism (s) by Dr. Eugenie Scott, Jan.
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| | From: | Richard Uhrich | | Subject: | REMINDER: Evolution vs.Creationism (s) by Dr. Eugenie Scott, Jan. | | Date: | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:22:43 GMT |
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 | Public Lecture sponsored by the San Diego Association for Rational
Inquiry. Details at http://SDARI.org
Evolution vs.Creationism (s)
by
Dr. Eugenie Scott
National Center for Science Education
January 10, 2005, 7 p.m.
Sumner Auditorium
Sumner Auditorium, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
8602 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla
Take La Jolla Pkwy (Hiwy 52) west; continue briefly on Torrey Pines Rd.
Turn right onto La Jolla Shores Dr. at the gas station. Go 1 mile north
to the south end of Scripps campus. Street parking nearby; handicapped
parking in the south parking lot.
Admission is free; NCSE donations accepted.
Information: 619-421-5844.
Copernicus proposed the heliocentric planetary theory, and Galileo
provided the evidence of its correctness. Galileo was persecuted by the
Roman Catholic Church until his death in 1642. That the sun, not the
earth, is the center of our planetary system is "only a theory". It took
centuries for the Roman Catholic Church to admit it was wrong. In 1859,
Darwin (with Wallace) proposed the theory of evolution, which has had a
profound impact on scientific thought and practice. Evolution is the
central pivot of modern biology, with unsurmountable evidence
accumulated and still accumulating from many scientific disciplines. It
has been 150 years since the publication by Darwin of the theory of
evolution. Why is it still challenged by some religious groups today?
What is being done about these challenges?
The San Diego Association for Rational Inquiry was founded to seek
answers to such questions. We proudly present one of the country's
foremost scientists to speak to it. Dr. Eugenie Scott is
Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, the
leading organization concerned with the teaching of evolution in the
United States. She has written extensively on the evolution-creationism
controversy in scholarly and popular venues, and she has won numerous
awards for her work from scholarly organizations, including the Public
Service Award from the National Science Board. She is a recent
past-president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
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