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The Commons at Spooner Hall

The Kenneth A. Spencer Memorial Lecture
Tim Flannery, scientist, humanist and best selling author
"The Weather Makers: How We Are Changing the Climate and What It Means"
April 7, 2008, Kansas Union Ballroom

 

Difficult Dialogues at the Commons
Knowledge: Faith and Reason

Podcasts

Video Archive

Kenneth Miller, Professor of Biochemistry, Brown University
“God, Darwin, and Design: Creationism’s Second Coming"
September 7, 2006, Kansas Union Ballroom

Judge John E. Jones, III, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
"Judicial Independence and Kitzmiller v. Dover et al"
September 26, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Os Guinness, Sociologist & Author; Co-Founder of The Trinity Forum
"A World Safe for Diversity: Living with our Deepest Differences in an Age of Exploding Pluralism"
October 3, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
"The God Delusion"
October 16, 2006, Lied Center

Eugenie Scott, Director, National Center for Science Education
"Faith, Reason, and Assumption in Understanding the Natural World"
November 16, 2006, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union

Michael Behe, Professor of Biology, Lehigh University
“The Argument for Intelligent Design in Biology”
December 7, 2006, Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall

Panel Discussion on Knowledge: Faith & Reason
December 7, 2006, Hall Center Conference Hall
Sue Gamble, Kansas State Board of Education
Scott Jones, Bishop, United Methodist Church, Kansas Area
Richard Lariviere, Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, KU
Derek Schmidt, Simons Public Humanities Fellow & Majority Leader of the Kansas State Senate
Edward O. Wiley, Professor/Senior Curator, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, KU

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