The Genesis Agendum
Summer Lecture in Cambridge
Saturday  11 July  2009

 

Dissent over Descent

Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism

  A lecture by

Professor Steve Fuller
Professor of Sociology in the University of Warwick

Following on from the Cambridge Darwin Festival, this lecture is our own contribution to the 2009 anniversary celebrations. Most academics hold to the idea that unguided natural selection alone can explain life’s diversity. The minority that allow the possibility of intelligent causation in the history of life are seen to be divisive, undermining both science and attempts at harmony with religious perspectives. This talk will consider whether the concept of intelligent design is in fact a divider or a unifier of science and religion. 

The lecture is intended for a general audience but should be of particular interest to all teachers of history, philosophy, sociology, science, and theology.

 

Professor Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology in the University of Warwick .
He is the author of  many papers and some 15 books, including 
The Intellectual: the Positive Power of Negative Thinking (Icon 2006); 
Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution (Polity 2007) and 
Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism (Icon 2008).