Saturday, August 20, 2005
ASBMB to Sponsor Evolution Symposium
The BiologyPublic Affairs Advisory Committee of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecurlar has announced it will sponsor a public affairs symposium on Teaching the Science of Evolution Under Threat from Alternative Views at the ASBMB Annual Meeting, April 1-5, 2006, in San Francisco. The symposium is scheduled for April 4.
The decision to sponsor the symposium, sponsors say, is a response to continuing and ongoing efforts in many states and localities around the country to mandate the teaching of philosophical alternatives to the theory of evolution in K-12 science classes such as creation "science” or its close relative, “intelligent design.”
The session will be chaired by PAAC Chair Bill Brinkley, Baylor College of Medicine. The panel of speakers includes:
The decision to sponsor the symposium, sponsors say, is a response to continuing and ongoing efforts in many states and localities around the country to mandate the teaching of philosophical alternatives to the theory of evolution in K-12 science classes such as creation "science” or its close relative, “intelligent design.”
The session will be chaired by PAAC Chair Bill Brinkley, Baylor College of Medicine. The panel of speakers includes:
- Dr. Ken Miller: Brown University, a prominent cell biologist and advocate for the theory of evolution who has authored a book on the subject, Finding Darwin’s God.
- Dr. Don Johanson: founder of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, Tempe, is a worldfamous paleoanthropologist who is the discoverer of the “Lucy” fossil, the 3.2 million-year-old partial skeleton of a female member of the species australopithecus afarensis.
- The Reverend Ted Peters: Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California, speaks frequently on the compatibility of science and religion, and is a co-editor of the journal, Theology and Science.
- Dr. Eugenie Scott: Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, in Oakland, California.
