Event date: Saturday, February 12,
2011
Event place:
Apple Valley, CA
Darwin and
Design
In honor of Darwin’s birthday, join San Bernardino County Museum
Curator of Paleontology Eric Scott for a lecture,
“Darwin and Design,” at the
Victor Valley Museum in Apple Valley on Saturday, February 12 at 2pm. The presentation is included in paid museum
admission.
February 12th is the birthday of Charles Darwin, whose
landmark 1859 book On the Origin of
Species changed biology—and our perceptions of life and our place in the
universe—forever. “Darwin’s insights explained how animals developed and
changed through geologic time, via the process of natural selection,” said
Scott.
“Later studies, coupled Darwin’s work with genetics, provided the bedrock for
all subsequent studies of biology. Yet misunderstandings persist about how some
features of living creatures could have appeared without some sort of designer
working behind the scenes. Can natural selection and genetics explain the
wonderful diversity of life we see today? Does the appearance of “design”
mandate a designer?” In this lecture, Scott will examine the evidence for (and
against) “design” in the living world.
The Victor Valley Museum is located at
11873 Apple
Valley Road in Apple Valley.
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