Why the fuss about Darwin and Evolution?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
National Center for Science Education
Venue: Satellite Student Union
Time: 7:30-9:00 PM
Free special event parking is available for the evening. Contact 831-402-8491 for a code for the parking lot machines
Charles Darwin proposed 150 years ago that living things have descended with modification from common ancestors by the process of Natural selection. This is the key to understanding virtually every area in biology from biochemistry, to cell biology, to organismic biology, to population biology, to ecology. Evolution is the glue that holds biology together as a coherent science, making, in the words of a famous scientist, "a meaningful picture as a whole". Nonetheless, the teaching of evolution is a contentious issue in the United States today, for reasons that touch upon religion, science, history, and – inevitably – politics. Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, authority on evolution and the creationism/evolution controversy, will help to clear the air about this publicly, if not scientifically controversial topic of evolution, as we continue to celebrate Darwin's bicentennial.
This special lecture continues the University’s Sesquicentennial celebration of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species …”, and is co-sponsored by the California State University, Fresno Consortium for Evolutionary Studies, the Tri-Beta Biology Honors Club, the National Science Foundation Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the Natural Sciences Student Club, and the Associated Students of California State University, Fresno.
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