The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society in collaboration with the Consortium for Evolutionary Studies have invited Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the Nation Center for Science Education, to speak in celebration of Darwin at California State University, Fresno.
This event is part of the Evoluionary Biology Lecture Series, and the talk is titled,
“Why the Fuss About Darwin and Evolution?”
From the event advertisement: (Click here to download event flyer in PDF format)
Charles Darwin proposed 150 years ago that all living things have descended with modification from common ancestors by the process of Natural Selection. This is the key to understanding every area in biology, including for example biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, organismal biology, population biology, ecology, and medicine. Evolution is the single most important idea in biology, and the glue that holds biology together as a coherent science. In the words of Theodosius Dobzhansky, “Seen in the light of evolution, biology is perhaps intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light, it becomes a pile of sundry facts, some of them interesting or curious, but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”
Nonetheless, the teaching of evolution, particularly in K-12 grades, remains a contentious issue in the United States today, for reasons that touch upon religion, science, history, and – inevitably – politics. Dr. Eugenie C. Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, and a foremost authority on evolution and the creationism/evolution controversy, will help to clear the air about the publicly, but not scientifically, controversial topic of evolution. Dr. Scott will provide a clear explanation of the facts and fallacies of the debate and invite questions from the audience.
- DATE: Wednesday, 2 December 2009
- VENUE: CSUF Satellite Student Union
- California State University, Fresno
5241 N. Maple Ave. , Fresno CA 93740
(See Map) - TIME: 7:30-9:00 P.M.
- COST: Free!
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 Biological Honor Society, the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, the Kremen School of Education, the Natural Sciences Student Club, and the Associated Students of California State University, Fresno.
