Event
Ape or angel: Teaching biological evolution in a religious culture
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 16:30to17:30
Education Building
3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
9I制作厂免费/Dawson Speaker Series in Education: Dr Brian Alters, William Dawson Scholar, Integrated Studies in Education. Biological evolution is a scientific fact and the fundamental concept of all life sciences, yet national polls indicate that 50% of Canadians and Americans reject evolutionary science. The cause appears to be a synergism of religious illiteracy, powerful North American anti-evolution forces, scientific illiteracy in general, and evolution misunderstanding in particular.