A Conversation with Francisco Ayala

Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 at 12:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Francisco J. Ayala, an evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a winner of the National Medal of Science. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including, most recently, Darwin’s Gift to Science and Religion and Darwin and Intelligent Design. He was a chief witness in the creationist trials in Arkansas in 1981 that prevented religion from being taught as science in the classroom.

Darwin Bicenntenial Celebration Committee reception and poster session for faculty and student research in evolutionary biology will precede his evening lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the South Ballroom.

8 p.m. Lecture in the Sun Room: Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion.

Part of the National Affairs Series and the Darwin Bicentennial Celebration.

Cosponsored By:
  • Bioethics Program
  • College of LAS Miller Lecture Fund
  • Darwin Bicentennial Celebration Committee
  • Ecology & Evolution Biology Inter Grad Program
  • Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biol
  • Genetics, Development & Cell Biology
  • Interdepartmental Genetics Grad Program
  • National Affairs
  • National Affairs Series
  • Parks Library
  • Philosophy & Religious Studies
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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