Michael Shermer/ Darwin Day
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:39 pm
As a part of UTK's Darwin Day Celebrations...Dr. Michael Shermer will be speaking on campus the next couple days...
Dr Michael Shermer " is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine , the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Fox Family television series, Exploring the Unknown. He is author of In Darwin's Shadow; The Borderlands of Science; Denying History; How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, the Search for God; Why People Believe Weird Things; and Teach Your Child Science and co-author of Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics."
Talk by Michael Shermer 11am - 12pm
The Science of Good and Evil: The Evolutionary Origins of Morality
Shiloh Room, University Center
Keynote address by Michael Shermer 7:30 - 9pm
Why People Believe Weird Things: Creationism, Holocaust Denial, and Beyond
210 Alumni Memorial Bldg
If you ever watch any documentaries on anything "unexplained" or "supernatural" and you see a guy saying its all bullshit, its likely him.
If anyone considers themself a skeptic or rationalist should go check this out....I certainly am gonna try.
Dr Michael Shermer " is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic Magazine , the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Fox Family television series, Exploring the Unknown. He is author of In Darwin's Shadow; The Borderlands of Science; Denying History; How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, the Search for God; Why People Believe Weird Things; and Teach Your Child Science and co-author of Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics."
Talk by Michael Shermer 11am - 12pm
The Science of Good and Evil: The Evolutionary Origins of Morality
Shiloh Room, University Center
Keynote address by Michael Shermer 7:30 - 9pm
Why People Believe Weird Things: Creationism, Holocaust Denial, and Beyond
210 Alumni Memorial Bldg
If you ever watch any documentaries on anything "unexplained" or "supernatural" and you see a guy saying its all bullshit, its likely him.
If anyone considers themself a skeptic or rationalist should go check this out....I certainly am gonna try.