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Evolution Versus Creationism

11:00am | Saturday 24 March 2012
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About this Event:

Many biologists are worried by the recent and unexpected return of an argument founded on belief – based on certainty and unsupported by evidence – that life did not evolve but appeared by supernatural means. Worldwide, more people believe in creationism than in evolution. Why do no biologists agree? Steve Jones will talk about what evolution is, about new evidence that men and chimps are close relatives and about how we are, nevertheless, unique. He will also outline why creationism does more harm to religion than it does to science. 

Jones won the Aventis Prize for Science Books (then known as the Rhone-Poulenc Prize) in 1994 for The Language of the Gene. In 1997, he was awarded the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday Prize, the UK’s foremost award for communicating science to the public.

Presented by Centre for Inquiry

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