darwin year observance
The entire University community is joining in a year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Darwins' birth (February 12, 1809 -- coincidentally the same day and year as Abraham Lincoln's birth, which the Maguire Ethics Center is also observing with a lecture by Professor James McPherson).
The website for the Darwin Year Observance is here. The Center's related events are described below.
- 4-6 p.m., O'Donnell Hall, Owen Art Center (Meadows School -
map here):
showing of the 2007 Peabody Award-winning PBS "Frontline" documentary,
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
- 6-7 p.m., Caruth Auditorium, Owen Art Center (Meadows School -
map here):
Reception
- 7-8:30 p.m., Caruth Auditorium, Owen Art Center (Meadows School - map here): Panel discussion on the legal, ethical, and journalistic issues surrounding the making of NOVA’s documentary film, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. Participants include The Hon. John E. Jones III, the federal judge who barred a Dover, Pa., public school district in 2005 from requiring "intelligent design" to be taught in the science curriculum; Paula Apsell and Melanie Wallace, NOVA producers of the documentary; plaintiffs' counsel Eric Rothschild; and Laurie Lebo, journalist and author of The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-town America.
- 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon, Karcher Auditorium, Storey Hall (Dedman School of Law - map here): A discussion with The Hon. John E. Jones III, the federal judge who barred a Dover, Pa., public school district in 2005 from requiring "intelligent design" to be taught in the science curriculum, followed by a point/counter-point on the merits of the First Amendment issue raised by "intelligent design," with plaintiffs' counsel Eric Rothschild; Hiram Sasser, Director of Litigation for the Liberty Legal Institute; and Professor Lackland Bloom (moderator).