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Friday Evening Lecture Series
06/18/04
Time to Abandon Darwin? The Challenge from "Intelligent Design
Kenneth Miller, Brown University
Introduction by Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Lecture Abstract:
Advocates of "Intelligent Design" scored one of their first victories this year in the State of Ohio when a lesson plan critical of evolution was approved for use in the public schools. Arguing that "design" theory is a legitimate scientific alternative to evolution, critics of Darwin have tried to insert their ideas into biology textbooks and science curricula in as many as 15 states. Cellular and molecular biology form the core of the "design" arguments now advanced against evolution. What's behind this movement, and does it present a genuine scientific challenge to evolution?
Kenneth R. Miller is a Professor of Biology at Brown University and the author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, published in 1999. Dr. Miller earned his Sc. B. from Brown in 1970 and his Ph. D. from the University of Colorado in 1974. From 1974 to 1976 he was a Lecturer at Harvard University and was an Assistant Professor from 1976 to 1980. He became an Assistant Professor at Brown in 1980, Associate Professor in 1982, and has been Professor since1986. Dr. Miller served as Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and The Journal of Cell Science, and, from 1986 to 1991, was the General Editor of Advances in Cell Biology Volumes I through III. Dr. Miller has also co-authored, with Joseph S. Levine, several high school and college biology textbooks. In addition, he has served as a Scientific Advisor for a WGBH/ NOVA television series on evolution. Dr. Miller has received several teaching awards at Brown, including the Elizabeth H. Leduc Award for Teaching Excellence in the Life Sciences in 1993, the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of the Year Award in 1996, The Onyx Society Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998, and the Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning in 1999. He was also the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from Students with Alternate Learning Styles in 1997. Dr. Miller is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Cell Biology, where he currently serves as Chair of the Education Committee.
Kerry S. Bloom will introduce Dr. Miller. Dr. Bloom is a Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned his B.S. from Tulane University in 1975 and his Ph. D. from Purdue University in 1980. In 1982 Dr. Bloom completed a post-doctoral appointment at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He became an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1982, an Associate Professor in 1987, and has been Professor since 1994. Dr. Bloom came to the MBL in 1985 as an Instructor in the Physiology Course, was the Assistant Director of the Course from 1989 to 1990, and Director from 1997 to 1998. Dr. Bloom became a member of the MBL’s Science Council in 1996, serving as its Chair of from 1998 to 2000. Since 2001, he has been Co-Director of the biomedical hands-on laboratory section of the MBL Science Journalism Program. Dr. Bloom currently serves on Editorial Board for Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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