Understanding the gulf between science and creationism,

between the rational and the irrational, and why nonsense persists.

There has never been a more important time to understand the role of the scientific process in human affairs.  This conference presents tip scientists in physics and evolutionary biology, each of them gifted at explaining how to tell the difference between science and nonsense posing as science.

Saturday April 24th

SPEAKERS

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell the Difference Between Science and Bunk.
Dr. Massimo Pigliucci
Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.

What's True and What's Untrue in Physics Today
Dr. Michael Albrow
Physicist, Fermilab.

Intelligent Design or 'No Model' Creationism: Why It Can't Even Qualify as Pseudoscience.
Dr. Ron Pine
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Research Associate at the Field Museum.

What Primatology and evolutionary psychology can tell us about the evolution of human behavior.
Dr. Dario Maestripieri
Professor of Comparative Human Development, Neurobiology, Evolutionary Biology, and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago.

Disordered or Just Different? Myth, Science and Sexuality.
Dr. Veronica Drantz
Physiology professor on faculty of School of Anesthesia

(NorthShore University HealthSystem & DePaul University)

and the magic of

Mystopher

All Day Conference

111 East Wacker Drive

26th Floor

Chicago, IL 60601