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The Darwin Debates
About the Event
Sunday, October 25, 7:00 pm
Darwin’s Dilemma and
We Are Born of Stars
Tuesday, October 27, 7:30 pm
An Agnostic Challenges the
New Atheists
Wed., Oct. 28, 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Western Word Radio
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 pm
AFA Literary Cafe
Monday, November 30, 7:30 pm
Debate on the Origins of Life |
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Biographies |
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Lad Allen
Lad Allen is the co-founder of Illustra Media, a motion picture production company based in southern California. Since graduating from San Diego State University in 1973, Allen has produced, written, and directed more than 100 films and received numerous international awards. Illustra’s documentary trilogy--Unlocking the Mystery of Life, The Privileged Planet and Darwin’s Dilemma-- has helped popularize the scientific case for intelligent design in the universe. These films have been translated into 20 languages and distributed throughout the world. For more information about Illustra Media visit: www.illustramedia.com
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski is a Senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and author of numerous books, including The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and It Scientific Pretensions, just released in paperback, and the forthcoming The Deniable Darwin and Other Essays. The Chicago Tribune once wrote that “David Berlinski plus any topic equals an extraordinary book.” Berlinski received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels. He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Université de Paris. He lives in Paris. Dr. Berlinski's website can be visited at http://www.davidberlinski.org. |
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Dr. Carlos I. Calle
Dr. Carlos I. Calle is a senior research physicist at NASA Kennedy Space Center and the founder and director of NASA’s Electrostatics and Surface Physics Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics. He is the recipient of numerous NASA awards, including the Spaceflight Awareness Award in 2003 for exceptional contributions to the space program and the Silver Snoopy Award in 2007 for outstanding support of the Space Shuttle Program. With his laboratory staff, he has developed technologies for NASA’s lunar and Martian exploration programs as well as new testing techniques for several Space Shuttle and International Space Station systems.
Dr. Calle has been working on the physical properties of the lunar and Martian soil and is currently designing and building instrumentation for future planetary exploration missions. As one of the world experts on the electrostatic properties of the lunar and Martian dust, he has been developing technologies to keep dust from the spacesuits and equipment being planned for the lunar exploration missions.
He has published over one hundred and fifty scientific papers and is the author of Superstrings and Other Things: A Guide to Physics, Einstein for Dummies, Coffee with Einstein, and The Universe-Order without Design. His books have been translated into eight languages. http://www.aguidetophysics.com/ |
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Guillermo Gonzalez
Guillermo Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Physics at Grove City College. Born in Havana, he and his family fled from Cuba to the United States in 1967, where he earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Washington in 1993. Author of nearly 70 peer-reviewed scientific papers, Dr. Gonzalez’s work led to the discovery of two new planets, and his research has been featured in Science, Nature, and on the cover of Scientific American. Gonzalez has extensive experience in observing and analyzing data from ground-based observatories, including work at McDonald Observatory, Apache Point Observatory and Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. He is a world-class expert on the astrophysical requirements for habitability and on habitable zones and a co-founder of the "Galactic Habitable Zone" concept, which captured the October 2001 cover story of Scientific American. Gonzalez is co-author with Jay Richards of The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (Regnery, 2004) and co-author of Observational Astronomy, second edition (2006), a peer-reviewed college-level astronomy textbook published by Cambridge University Press.
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David Klinghoffer
David Klinghoffer is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and a columnist for Beliefnet.com, for which he writes the "Kingdom of Priests" blog. Klinghoffer is the author of numerous books, including How Would God Vote?, Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History, and The Discovery of God: Abraham and the Birth of Monotheism. A former literary editor of National Review magazine, Klinghoffer has written articles and reviews for the Los Angles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Seattle Times, Commentary, and other publications. |
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Dr. Stephen C. Meyer
Dr. Stephen C. Meyer is Director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute. Formerly a geophysicist with Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), Dr. Meyer earned his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at Cambridge University as a Rotary International Scholar. From 1990-2002, he was on the faculty of Whitworth College. Dr. Meyer is author of peer-reviewed publications in technical, scientific, philosophical and other books and journals. His latest book is Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design. His other books include Darwinism, Design and Public Education and Explore Evolution. Dr. Meyer’s website can be visited at http://www.signatureinthecell.com/. |
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Dr. Donald R. Prothero
Dr. Donald R. Prothero is Professor of Geology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He is currently the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 21 books and almost 200 scientific papers, including five leading geology textbooks and three trade books. He is on the editorial board of Skeptic magazine, and in the past has served as an associate or technical editor for Geology, Paleobiology and Journal of Paleontology< /SPAN>. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Paleontological Society, and the Linnaean Society of London, and has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Science Foundation. He has also been featured on several television documentaries, including episodes of Paleoworld and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts. |
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Jay Wesley Richards
Jay Wesley Richards has a Ph.D. (honors) in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was formerly a Teaching Fellow. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. He is co-author, with astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, of the The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (Regnery, 2004) and author of Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne 2009). He is also the author of many scholarly and popular articles in publications such as the The Washington Post, The American Spectator, National Review Online, and The Washington Times. He was executive producer of the documentaries The Call of the Entrepreneur and The Birth of Freedom.
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Dr. Michael Shermer
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and an Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Shermer’s latest book is The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics. His last book was Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design, and he is the author of The Science of Good and Evil and of Why People Believe Weird Things. Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University (1991). He was a college professor for 20 years, and since his creation of Skeptic magazine he has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). Dr. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown. |
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Dr. Richard Sternberg
Richard Sternberg is a Research Scientist at the Biologic Institute and a Research Collaborator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He is an evolutionary biologist with interests in the relation between genes and morphological homologies, and the nature of genomic “information.” He holds a Ph.D. in Biology (Molecular Evolution) from Florida International University and a Ph.D. in Systems Science (Theoretical Biology) from Binghamton University. From 2001-2007, he served as a staff scientist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and from 2001-2007 he was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Sternberg’s website can be visited at http://www.richardsternberg.org/. |
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James Underdown
James Underdown has been Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry-Los Angeles since 1999. The Center for Inquiry Transnational is the largest freethought organization in America. James has written for both Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. He is also the founder and chairman of the Independent Investigations Group in Hollywood, CA, one of the U.S.’s premiere paranormal investigation teams.
He also represents the Council for Secular Humanism and has been active in church/state separation issues, as well as in promoting the philosophy of secular humanism.
Jim is the creator of the Steve Allen Theater at CFI-L.A. He has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows including Angels vs. Demons, Hannity and Colmes, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, History's Mysteries, Proof Positive, Truth Lies, and Lewis Black, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. |
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Jonathan Wells
Jonathan Wells is currently a Senior Research Biologist at the Discovery Institute. He holds two Ph.D.s, one in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California at Berkeley, and one in Religious Studies from Yale University. He has worked as a postdoctoral research biologist at the University of California at Berkeley and the supervisor of a medical laboratory in Fairfield, California, and he has taught biology at California State University in Hayward. Dr. Wells has published articles in numerous journals, and he is author of Icons of Evolution: Why much of what we teach about evolution is wrong and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, and co-author of The Design of Life.
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