“Science and Religion: How to End Their Unnecessary Conflict”
Valparaiso University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kress Lecture Series
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Neils Science Center 234
7:00 pm
“Science and Religion: How to End Their Unnecessary Conflict”
Dr. Murray Peshkin
Argonne National Laboratory
The destructive conflict over the teaching of evolution in American public
schools is illogical and unnecessary. One of its causes has been the failure
of the scientific community to address students and the general public about
what science is and does, what a scientific theory is and how we know when
to believe it, and especially about the strengths and limitations of science.
In this talk I will try to do better.
About the speaker:
Dr. Peshkin received the Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was Associate or
Acting Director of the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory for
twenty years and is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and
th American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also been a
Fellow of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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