Photo courtesy of Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins will speak at UAF Thursday, July 15.
907-474-7902
7/2/10
Author and scientist Richard Dawkins will speak at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Thursday, July 15 at 7 p.m. in the Davis Concert Hall on the UAF campus.
Dawkins’ lecture, “Is Religion a Darwinian Adaptation? Or is it Intelligently Designed?” is free and open to the public. A book sale and signing will follow in the Great Hall.
The lecture will also be available via live webcast. Visit www.uafnews.com/webcasts on the day of the lecture for the link.
Dawkins’ lecture is sponsored by the UAF Socratic Society, College of Liberal Arts and Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning.
MEDIA CONTACT: Marmian Grimes, UAF public information officer, at 907-474-7902 or via e-mail at [email protected].
ON THE WEB: www.uafnews.com/webcasts
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OH BOY!!! I wish I could be there, we studies some of his work in the Philosophy of Science courses dealing with evolution, brilliant work and I am excited that students at UAF will get a chance to hear him speak!
It was a great talk, from what I saw of it. I would have had to get there at 6:15 to get a seat, and even the overflow room overflowed, so perhaps a bigger venue should have been found. Never the less thank you very much to whoever was involved in bringing Dawkins to UAF! You couldn’t have picked a speaker that I’d be more interested in seeing. I greatly admire his intellectual honesty, and frankly his courage in coming to a place that is on average so fanatically religious and well armed, and yet holding nothing back of his opinion on the nature and origins of religion. I’m sure his views are extremely offensive to many, even though as he says he’s not trying to offend people, just to uncover what he sees as the truth. It gives me hope that so many people wanted to see him speak, and he didn’t even get significantly heckled in the Q&A afterward.
I am really hoping that as well as the webcast which I caught some of, the talk was also digitally archived. Unfortunately the webcast only actually got working about half way through the talk, so everyone in the multiple overflow rooms or online missed a lot and are probably looking like me for an archived recording. Where might such a recording be available?
Well, UAF just kissed my financial contributions good-bye.
Robert,
Good riddance!