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| Wesley Elsberry,
Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education,
is a biologist with an eclectic educational and work background. Wesley
is a graduate of the University of Florida where he earned a B.S.
in zoology, the University of Texas at Arlington where he earned an
M.S.C.S. (computer science), and earned Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries
at Texas A&M University. He has taught as adjunct faculty at Washington
State University Tri-Cities. His work experience includes anesthesiology
research, veterinary research, software design and production for
military aircraft and logistics, and programming, electronics design,
and data analysis in behavioral research. His area of research is
dolphin biosonar sound production and bioenergetics. He is a co-author
on peer-reviewed papers in the "Journal of Experimental Biology"
and in "Biology and Philosophy". He received the Society
for Marine Mammalogy's "Fairfield Memorial Award for Innovation
in Marine Mammal Research" in 2001. |
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Views on Evolution and Creation
Wednesday-Sunday October
5-9, 2005
Thurman J. White Forum Conference Center (OCCE)
University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus
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This five day seminar provides a look at the evolution and
creation controversy. The course will look at current events
concerning evolutionary biology, antievolution, and how differing
concepts of creation drive the social dynamics. Students will
receive an overview of scientific practice and religious belief
and a history of events from William Paley's "Natural Theology"
to the present day. The continuity of antievolution content
from "creation science" through "intelligent
design" to "evidence against evolution" will
be shown.
University of Oklahoma undergraduates: This class qualifies
as upper division Gen Ed credit.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
• Evolution vs. Creationism,
by Eugenie Scott, 2004.
• Signs of Intelligence, edited
by William Dembski and James Kushiner, 2001.
• Why Intelligent Design Fails,
edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis, 2004.
• Online materials will be
made available via a course website.
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