CHED Public Seminar: ‘“American’s Ongoing Anti-Evolution Crusade”: An Evolving Narrative.’
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- The American controversy over creation and evolution is primarily fought over what is taught in U.S. public high school biology classes. Virtually no one disputes teaching the theory of evolution in public colleges and universities or using public funding to support evolutionary research in agriculture or medicine. It is the minds of American high school students that are at stake, and opponents of evolutionary teaching typically ask for (1) removing evolution from the classroom, or (2) balancing it with some form of creationist instruction, or (3) teaching it in some fashion as “just a theory.” These three strategies, although always present to some extent, also neatly play out chronologically as to when they have dominated so as to create three discernable phases of anti-evolutionism beginning in 1920 and continuing today. This talk will cover all three phases.
Ed Larson is University Professor of History and holds the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. He is author or co-author of seventeen books, including An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science; Evolution's Workshop: God and Science in the Galapagos Islands, Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, The Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800; The Return of George Washington; and the Pulitzer Prize winning Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. Larson's articles have appeared in such varied journals as Nature, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Scientific American, American History, and the Virginia Law Review. A popular public lecturer, Larson has taught at University of Georgia, Pepperdine University, and Stanford Law School and appeared on the History Channel, PBS's Nova and American Experience, C-SPAN, BBC, and The Daily Show. He has traveled extensively and led educational tours to the Galapagos, the Amazon, Antarctica, and elsewhere.
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