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By Dan Nonte, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-4314
Posted 9-22-09
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” generated a firestorm of controversy for describing a theory of evolution that contradicted widespread religious beliefs. In 2009, 150 years later, the public debate over evolution remains alive and well.
Dr. John F. Haught, senior fellow of science and religion at Georgetown University’s Woodstock Theological Center, will give a free public lecture – Evolution and Faith: What is at Stake? – 7:30-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Haught has called Darwin’s thought a “gift to theology.”
The lecture, free and open to the public, will be held in the Sullivan Science Building’s Mead Auditorium. For more information, contact Dr. Rob Cannon, a professor in the Department of Biology, at (336) 256-0071 or robert_cannon@uncg.edu.
Campus visitors can park in any university parking deck for $1 an hour. The McIver Street deck, on McIver Street between Market and Carr streets, is closest to the Sullivan Science Building. Campus maps are available at www.uncg.edu/online_map/.
Haught’s lecture, rescheduled from the spring, is sponsored by the Ashby Dialogue Fund. The Ashby Dialogues, created to honor Dr. Warren Ashby, are intended to help UNCG embody his belief that a university is “freedom in the search for and service of truth.”
Ashby was chairman of the Department of Philosophy 1949-68, director of the Honors Program 1966-69, director of the Residential College 1970-76, acting head of the Department of Religious Studies 1976-78 and a professor of religious studies from 1978 until his death in 1985.