University Skeptics will present a debate on whether Charles Darwin was wrong about evolution from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Performance Hall at the University of North Florida.
Participating in the panel discussion will be Hugh Ross, founder of Reasons to Believe; Michael Shermer, executive director of the Skeptics Society; and Fuz Rana, vice president of science apologetics with Reasons to Believe. The debate includes a public question-and-answer session.
Tickets are $10, and the event is free to faculty and students with valid ID cards. Tickets can be purchased by calling (904) 620-2878.
Thanks for the info! I just purchased my tickets.
I realize that Dr. Shermer is a lot more visible, vocal, and certainly more well known than is Nick Gotelli of the University of Vermont, but I can’t help admiring Dr. Gotelli’s response to the Discovery Institute after being presented with a similar debate offer.
PZ Myers posted the story just last week on Pharyngula –
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/how_to_respond_to_requests_to.php
This is an interesting development. Hugh Ross is (or at least was) an old earth creationist, but here he is supporting the ostensibly secular concept of ID, a view he has criticized in the past. Although not a biologist, he’s a very educated man (Ph.D. in astronomy from U Toronto, postdoc at Cal Tech) and I hold out hope that he will take the next step and become a theistic evolutionist.