TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The fifth in a series of public lectures on evolution will continue at The University of Alabama with cell biologist Dr. Kenneth Miller. Miller will speak on “Devil in the Details: The Failure of ‘Intelligent Design” March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in 127 Biology Building Auditorium on the UA campus.
Miller, a professor at Brown University, teaches introductory biology and cell biology. He has spoken and written widely on the creation/evolution debate.
Miller is the author of the 1999 book, “Finding Darwin’s God: a Scientists’ Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution.” He is known for defending biology and science in general, from what he considers misconstrued perceptions of the scientific literature and flawed arguments against evolution. As a Catholic, however, he also goes beyond the defense of science to defend theology from what he perceives as an undermining of the Christian faith by proponents of creationism and intelligent design.
His lecture will focus on the arguments made by proponents of creationism and intelligent design and why their examples of biochemical machines that exhibit “irreducible complexity” are in fact not irreducible and thus could have evolved by the process of natural selection.
With his collaborator, Joseph Levine, he has written a series of general biology textbooks aimed at high school and college students
The Alabama Lectures on Life’s Evolution (ALLELE) is a two-year series of lectures and will continue with a lecture on
* April 13, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, will speak on his recent writings in evolutionary biology.
The ALLELE series is funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, and UA’s College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education. The lectures are designed for non-technical audience and are free and open to the public.
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