2008 Woodie Awards
Renowned skeptic Michael Shermer to give free lecture April 19
Idaho Museum of Natural History
Issue date: 4/11/07 Section: News
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The Idaho Museum of Natural History, in association with several other ISU departments and programs, would like to invite you to join them for noted scholar and skeptic Dr. Michael Shermer's free lecture, "Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Battle for Science and Religion, " on Thursday, April 19 at seven p.m. in Frazier Hall. Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, and co-host and producer of the Family Channel television series, "Exploring the Unknown."
Additionally, he is a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Shermer is the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown," about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. His book "The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share, Care, and Follow the Golden Rule," is on the evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God. He wrote a biography, "In Darwin's Shadow" about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace.
Shermer also wrote "The Borderlands of Science," about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and "Denying History," on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudo history. His book "How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God" presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God. He is also the author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" on pseudoscience, superstitions, and other confusions of our time.
According to the late Stephen Jay Gould (from his foreword to "Why People Believe Weird Things"), "Michael Shermer, as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life."
Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech. He has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Leeza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as giving interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel.
Shermer will be available after the talk to sign his books and talk with those in attendance.
Co-Sponsors of Dr. Shermer's talk include: ISU College of Arts and Sciences; Associated Students of Idaho State University (ASISU); ISU Cultural Affairs Committee; ISU Office of Research; ISU Dept of Geosciences; ISU Dept of Psychology; and the Idaho Museum of Natural History.
Additionally, he is a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Shermer is the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown," about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. His book "The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share, Care, and Follow the Golden Rule," is on the evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God. He wrote a biography, "In Darwin's Shadow" about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace.
Shermer also wrote "The Borderlands of Science," about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and "Denying History," on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudo history. His book "How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God" presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God. He is also the author of "Why People Believe Weird Things" on pseudoscience, superstitions, and other confusions of our time.
According to the late Stephen Jay Gould (from his foreword to "Why People Believe Weird Things"), "Michael Shermer, as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life."
Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech. He has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Leeza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as giving interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel.
Shermer will be available after the talk to sign his books and talk with those in attendance.
Co-Sponsors of Dr. Shermer's talk include: ISU College of Arts and Sciences; Associated Students of Idaho State University (ASISU); ISU Cultural Affairs Committee; ISU Office of Research; ISU Dept of Geosciences; ISU Dept of Psychology; and the Idaho Museum of Natural History.
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