Fall, 1999 Lycoming College Symposium

Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis?


Online Literature Library - Charles Darwin's Origin of Species  
Chapter 1 from Debating Darwin: Adventures of a Scholar By John C. Greene The Kansas School Board Decision
Evolution Resources Intelligent Design/Creationism Resources

Events scheduled for the symposium
Heim Biology and Chemistry Building, Room G-11, 7:30 PM

Date Event
September 16 Dr. Stephen Griffith, Department of Philosophy, Lycoming College.
Presentation Title - Evolution: A Theory in Crisis?
September 21 Jeffrey Newman, Department of Biology, Lycoming College.
Presentation Title -
A Typical Biologist's View of Evolution: Overwhelming Evidence.
October 7 Michael Ruse, Philosophy Department, University of Guelph.
Presentation Title - Is Darwinism a Social Construction?
October 19 Richard Erickson, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Lycoming College
Presentation Title - Rocks of the Ages
November 2 Eleanor S. Pollak, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Presentation Title - Evolution of the Blood Clotting Cascade.

see also: Sadaaki Iwanaga and Shun-ichiro Kawabata,
EVOLUTION AND PHYLOGENY OF DEFENSE MOLECULES ASSOCIATED WITH INNATE IMMUNITY IN HORSESHOE CRAB [Frontiers in Bioscience 3 d973-984 September 1 1998]
November 11
Michael J. Behe, Department of Biological Sciences, Lehigh University author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
November 18 William Dembski
Presentation Title - Redesigning Science
December 2 Panel Discussion: Moderated by Dr. Edward Gabriel, Department of Biology, Lycoming College

The Symposium committee consists of Richard Erickson, Edward Gabriel, Stephen Griffith (chair), Jeff Newman, Denise Robinson, Brenda Terry-Manchester, Diana Van Fleet, and David Wolfe.

 

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