SCIENCE, BLOGS AND
INTELLIGENT DEBATES
Special Lecture At Pacific Science Center June
2
Join the Northwest Science Writers Association and the
Forum on Science Ethics and Policy for a conversation with
PZ Myers, biology professor at the University of Minnesota
Morris (UMM) and the author of the science blog Pharyngula
at Pacific Science Center's Laser Dome on Monday, June 2
from 7-9 p.m.
Myers, who has been called a "godless liberal", will take
the audience inside his popular blog, Pharyngula. The
topics Myers covers are eclectic, delving into the
non-scientific as well as scientific. The blog has become
particularly well-known for criticism of intelligent design
and has been ranked as the third-most-read blog maintained
by a Minnesotan. Pharyngula won the 2005 Koufax Award for
Best Expert Blog. The science journal Nature listed
Pharyngula as the top-ranked blog written by a scientist.
On Pharyngula, Myers has often criticized the Discovery
Institute, Answers in Genesis, and other creationist Web
sites, as well as offering criticisms of Intelligent
Design, asserting that its claims are pseudoscientific.
Other posts on Pharyngula cover a broad variety of topics
that interest Myers. These include cephalopods; science;
religion; local, national and international politics,
particularly those involving science and/or education;
superstition; and evolutionary developmental biology.
Myers has been in the news recently because of his
outspoken criticisms of the new documentary film, Expelled:
No Intelligence Allowed.
Myers also works with zebrafish in the field of
evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). He is a
public critic of intelligent design (ID) and of the
creationist movement in general, and is an activist in the
American creation-evolution controversy.
The lecture is free to the public. Guests may enter through
our main ticket booth, located near Seattle Center.
Hosted at Pacific Science Center, the program content of
this lecture represents the views of our presenters and
does not necessarily represent the views of Pacific Science
Center, its staff and its board.
More
Information:
→Northwest Science Writers
Association
→Forum On Science Ethics and
Policy
→Pharyngula
→Discovery Institute
→Answers In Genesis