Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Wednesday science-y goodness in Austin

CFI-Austin, along with Texas Citizens for Science and the UT Section of Integrative Biology, is sponsoring a trio of talks this evening to be held at UT's Burdine Hall, room 108. I think I had some classes there back in the day. The general theme is "Science Education in Texas," which, as you may well know, is under a cloud due to the ideological machinations of the arch-conservative State Board of Education and its young-earth-creationist dentist chairman, Dan McLeroy.

Admission is free and it all starts at 6:30. The speakers include the TCS's own Steve Schafersman, on "How Will Texas Oppose Aggressive, Organized Creationism in Texas?"; Ed Brayton, author of the blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars, on the religious roots of ID (there's also a Dispatches blog meetup for Ed at Stubb's BBQ Thursday night at 7); and Josh Rosenau, NCSE staffer and author of the blog Thoughts from Kansas, on the evolution of the creationist movement.

I'm going to do my level best to attend. Hope lots of you can too. If you see me there, wave.


Addendum: Well, bummer, you won't see me there. If any of our readers do attend, please post a report in the comments.

1 comment:

  1. I'm sorry you couldn't make it; it was a fun evening.

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