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The BC Skeptics and the Psychology Department of Simon Fraser University
present:
            "A Critique of Scientific Creationism"

Friday, July 7th, 1995 -- 7:30 P.M. at the Halpern Centre, SFU.

Open to the public, free.

Featured speaker: Scott Goodman

Discussion panel: Dale Beyerstein, Harold Gopaul, and Ron Ydenberg

SCOTT GOODMAN has been a leader in the fight against the Abbotsford School
District's policy of requiring "scientific creationism" to be taught in
biology classes as an alternative to the theory of evolution by natural
selection. He has debated school board officials and advocates of the
literal story of Genesis on the radio and in various other forums. To
enliven the discussion at our next meeting, he has asked the BC Skeptics and
their friends to bring along the best arguments for divine creation they can
come up with. He and the discussants on the panel will take on all comers.

DALE BEYERSTEIN is a philosophy instructor at Vancouver Community College,
Langara, and the author of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association's official
policy brief on creationism.

HAROLD GOPAUL is a biology teacher at Port Moody Senior Secondary School. He
has received several awards for his efforts to improve science teaching in
the province and has been an outspoken critic of attempts to misrepresent
the Biblical story of creation as a scientific theory worthy of inclusion in
the biology curriculum.

RON YDENBERG is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at
S.F.U. His research concentrates on evolutionary aspects of animal
behaviour.  In addition to his contributions to the scientific study of
evolution, he has defended evolutionary theory from pseudoscientific attacks
by "creation scientists."

If you go to http://www.wimsey.com/BC_Skeptics/ and then follow the "next
meeting" link you will find, in addition to the above information,
instructions and a couple of maps for finding the Halpern Centre (briefly,
it's a small building just to the northwest of the Academic Quadrangle and
just to the northeast of the bookstore and library).
    If I get the time, I hope to add a reading list to the meeting web page.
Suggestions?

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ted@wimsey.com  ted@eslvcr.wimsey.com  (Ted Powell)