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UnrepentantSinner
10th September 2003, 02:36 AM
(If any of you can attend this, I'd really love to get a play by play).

EVENT ** EVENT ** EVENT ** EVENT ** EVENT ** EVENT

Evolution: What It Is, and What It Isn't

A Public Symposium

September 24, 2003
7-10 P.M.

Montgomery County College
Room D100 - Auditorium

I- 45 N @ Hwy. 242 / College Park Drive
(Exit #79-travel west approximately 1/4 mile.
Main college entrance is on the right.)

SPEAKERS:

Keynote Speech by
Alan D. Gishlick, Ph.D.
National Center for Science Education
"Whose God is it Anyway?
Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Divine Implications of Science"

Followed by:

Steven Schafersman, Ph.D.
President of Texas Citizens for Science:
"From Genesis to Intelligent Design: A Brief History of Creationist Challenges to Evolution Instruction in Texas Public Schools"

Keith Parsons, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston, Clear Lake
"Why Evolution is Science and Intelligent Design Theory is Not"

Roundtable Q&A Panel with Audience Participation
Speakers will join the following distinguished individuals:

Robert Dennison
President of the Texas Association of Biology Teachers

Wendee Holtcamp
NSF Research Fellow at Rice University, Evolutionary Biology, Instructor at Kingwood College

Mark W. Whitten, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at
Montgomery College

EVENT SPONSORS:

Texas Association of Biology Teachers

Texas Citizens for Science

Americans United for Separation of Church and State's
Houston Area Chapter

For information, call Charlotte Coffelt (281) 360-2506

UnrepentantSinner
10th September 2003, 06:40 AM
I'm going to bump this in case any of the daytime (U.S.) posters only use the "New Posts" link. Surely someone in Houston can make it to this meeting and let us know if any rabid Creationists show up to try and spoil it.