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Conn College to host skeptic´s discussion of intelligent design Oct. 10
October 02, 2006
Conn College to host skeptic´s discussion of intelligent design Oct. 10
For immediate release - Oct. 2, 2006 Contact: Eric Cárdenas (860) 439-2508; eric.cardenas@conncoll.edu
Best-selling author and renowned skeptic to discuss evolution versus intelligent design on Oct. 10 at Connecticut College
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Michael Shermer, editor-in-chief of "Skeptic Magazine," best-selling author and co-host and producer of the Fox Family television show "Exploring the Unknown," will speak at Connecticut College on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at noon in the Ernst Common Room of the Blaustein Humanities Center.
Shermer´s lecture at the college, which is free and open to the public, will focus on topics in his new book, "Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design." In the book, which debates evolution versus intelligent design, Shermer refutes the pseudoscientific arguments behind intelligent design and demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution.
The executive director of the Skeptics Society, Shermer is a contributing editor and monthly columnist for "Scientific American" magazine, and is the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology. He is also the science correspondent for KPCC radio, a National Public Radio affiliate in southern California.
Shermer will be available to sign books before and after the lecture.
Shermer is the author of several other books, including "Denying History" (2000), which focuses on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion, and "In Darwin´s Shadow" (2002), which is a biography of Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection. He also penned "Why People Believe Weird Things" (1997) and "How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God" (1999).
For more information, contact the Connecticut College psychology department at 439-2330.
Ranked among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 42 states and 41 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 84-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.
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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu