Saturday, February 04, 2006
It's All Happening at the (Sacramento) Zoo
The Sacramento Zoo is presenting a lecture series on evolution and intelligent design. Here's the schedule:
- Feb. 22: Science and Non-Science: The Truth Behind Intelligent Design: Why intelligent design is fundamentally nonscientific, and flaws in intelligent design arguments, by Maureen Stanton, professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis.
- March 22: The Hard Evidence For Evolution: How fossil finds support evolutionary theory, by Richard Cowen, paleontologist and UC Davis professor emeritus of geology.
- April 26: History of Evolutionary Thought: The people, politics and debate of the 19th-century era when Charles Darwin published the seminal book on evolution, "The Origin of Species," by Robin Whittall, zoo education director.
All lectures are on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Admission is $8 for members, $9 for the general public. Teachers may qualify for discounted admission of $5. For more information, call (916) 264-5889 or www.saczoo.com