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• Darwin, "Design" and the Reporter's Dilemma

• Date:
  March 29, 2006
• Time:
  7-8:30 p.m.
• Description:

  

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  March 29, 2006
  7:00-8:30 p.m.
  Hemmendinger Hall, Silver Center
  100 Washington Square East

  Fresh from his controversial testimony in the Dover, PA, "intelligent design" trial, a leader of the ID movement, one of his most prominent critics, and a New York Times reporter who covered the trial debate how the press should be reporting the raging conflict over how life evolved.

  • Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box and professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University.
  • Massimo Pigliucci, author of Denying Evolution and associate professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University.
  • Laurie Goodstein, national religion correspondent, New York Times.

  Moderator: Dan Fagin, associate professor of journalism, NYU.

  Sponsored by the Science and Environmental Reporting Program (SERP) in the Department of Journalism and by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Science.

  

  All events are open to the public unless otherwise specified.

• Location:
  Hemmendinger Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East

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