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The HPS Program, Case Western Reserve University, & the Cleveland Museum of Natural History are pleased to present
DARWIN DAY 2005
Saturday, Feb 12, 2005
Including a Free Public Presentation:
DEFENDING DARWIN
Why Creationists Persist in Attacking Evolution Education
 Brian Alters
McGill University & Harvard University
Sat, Feb 12, 4:30 pm
Murch Auditorium
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval, University Circle, Cleveland, OH
- Free & Open to the Public-
Reception with Booksigning to follow
On Sat Feb 12-- Darwin's 196th Birthday-- join exciting speaker & distinguished expert in science education, Brian Alters, author of Defending Evolution.
Dr. Brian Alters, Sir William Dawson Scholar, holds appointments internationally at McGill University, Montreal, where he recently won the university's highest teaching award, and at Harvard University, Cambridge. Along with producing 5 books in the last 5 years on biology, evolution and education, Brian is founder and director of the Evolution Education Research Center, a joint involvement between professors of McGill and Harvard universities. He writes primarily about evolution education and teaching, with a bestselling book: Defending Evolution in the Classroom (with a Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould).
Sponsored by Case's Program in the History & Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Biology Program, College Scholars Program, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
For more information e-mail patricia.princehouse@case.edu or call Pam Keiper at 216-231-2075.
For Darwin Day events worldwide, see www.darwinday.org/dispevent/index.php
PAST EVENTS
October 15-17 (Friday-Sunday), 2004
Strosacker Auditorium
Case Western Reserve University
Evolution and God: 150 Years of Love and War Between Science and Religion
Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Science Program
More Information: Dr Alan Rocke, 368-2614, alan.rocke@case.edu
Darwin's revolution was not limited to the scientific world. It reverberates to this day in theology, philosophy and politics. As a result, in America today, people hear more about evolution from evangelists preaching against it, than they do from their high school teachers. This highly charged political nexus has delivered a false impression about the history of evolutionary theory and its interactions with walks of life outside the arcane scientific world. This conference is committed to achieving a more accurate historical understanding of these issues among historians and philosophers, and bringing that view directly to the public.
Confirmed speakers include:
For more information, click here.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Saturday, February 28, 2004
11 a.m.
Clark Hall Room 309
Case Western Reserve University
Catastrophe and Discontinuity in the Modern Natural Sciences
Dr. David Sepkoski
Oberlin College
Sponsored by the History and Philosophy of Science Program
More Information: Dr Alan Rocke, 368-2614, ajr@case.edu
Dr. Sepkoski will consider the tension between continuity and discontinuity as models of scientific explanation in biology and geology during the 17th and 20th centuries. This tension, he will argue, originated during the scientific revolution in a theological context, and resurfaced, in a different context, in recent paleontological debates over the evolutionary role of mass extinctions in geological history.
Complimentary lunch and poster session on the scientific revolution will follow the talk.
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