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Steve Jones, evolutionary biologist and author of "Almost Like a Whale" and "The Single Helix" (recently published in paperback) returns to give his "Why Intelligent Design Is Stupid" lecture another go.
The original lecture saw queues stretching out of the building and down the street - hundreds were turned away. Although it's at a larger venue this time, it's advisable to get there early if you want to get in!
The lecture is free, with no ticket required and no need to book.
Steve Jones' outline:
I wear glasses. My eye lens has become stiff and no longer focuses well. That's life, or a hint of impending death, for in the days of nuts, berries and sabre-toothed tigers I would have starved or been eaten by now. Evolution cares only about the next generation; I am too old to pass on genes, and my eyesight is hence of no interest to Darwin's machine. I have nobody to blame - but what about advocates of Intelligent Design, the notion that the eye is so complicated that it needed a designer to do the job? Some wear spectacles. Do they never have doubts about their astral engineer, who could have given them a BMW of an organ rather than an Austin Allegro? I will show why theirs is the argument from ignorance, idleness and incuriosity - and why evolution is a far better theory.