"Open Minds Teach Both Sides"

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Open Minds Teach Both Sides

TBSE:
  
  A series of Veritas Forums will be held next week  (Feb. 14-17) at Texas A&M University for those of you who can make it or may have friends or relatives attending there or living nearby.  The note below gives details.  Note in particular the session Tuesday, February 15th, featuring biochemist Dr. Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box and the one most often credited with coining the phrase "irreducible complexity", and TAMU's Dr. Vincent Cassone. 
  
  I hope you or someone you know can attend.   It is open to the public and free.
  
  Mark
  PS:  Please continue to encourage your local teachers to use supplemental materials in order to teach weaknesses of evolution, and to continue reporting large or small errors in textbooks your children are using at:  http://www.strengthsandweaknesses.org/BookReport.htm
  
  Mark Ramsey
  Texans for Better Science Education Foundation   www.strengthsandweaknesses.org

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Veritas Forum Examines Life's Questions

       Feb. 3, 2005 - Some of life's most pressing issues, such as the existence of evil and the role of ethics in business and society, will be examined Feb. 14-17 at Texas A&M University as part of the Veritas Forum, a national distinguished speaker series.
       Sponsored by Texas A&M's Christian Faculty Network along with 15 student organizations, the Veritas Forum will be held at the Rudder complex, says Murphy Smith, professor of accounting and Christian Faculty Network co-chair.
       The forum, he says, is intended to explore some of life's vital questions, including: What is true? Why do people suffer? Is there evidence of a creator? Are science and faith compatible? "Veritas" is the Latin word for truth, and the forum is open to everyone, be they agnostics, secularists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Christians, he adds.
       Eleanor Stump, professor of philosophy at St. Louis University, will discuss "Why is there evil in the world?" Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater. She is the author of Aquinas in the series "Arguments of the Philosophers" and is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers.
       On Feb. 15, Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University and author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, and Vincent Cassone, department head of biology at Texas A&M and an expert on biological clocks in organisms, will debate "intelligent design" at 7 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium.
       Smith will discuss the essential role of ethics in business and society Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. in Rudder 510. Smith has served on the Ethics Task Force of the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, and, in July 2002, he testified at a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. regarding business and accounting ethics.
       On Feb. 17, Rick Green, a former Texas State Representative and advocate of returning to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, will address the question, "Is America one nation under God?" Green will speak at 7 p.m. in Rudder Theater. Earlier in the day, at 4 p.m. in Rudder Theater, he will engage in a debate regarding God and politics.
       For more information, visit the national Veritas website at http://www.veritas.org or contact co-chairs of Texas A&M's Christian Faculty Network, Murphy Smith at [email protected] or (979) 845-3108 and Steve Crouse, professor of health and kinesiology, at (979) 845-3997.