Evolution Now: A Message of Moral Reponsibility

May 28, 2008, 7:00pm–8:30pm
Women's City Club, 254 E. Fulton, Grand Rapids, MI, View Map

Presented by Karel Rogers, PhD, Retired Professor of Biology, former Biology Department Chair, Grand Valley State University

Description

Evolution is incorrectly seen as a process of the past but it is an ever present fundamental force of existence. The visible world is made up of levels of organization—molecules to social groups—each level depends on the previous one but also has emergent properties subject to selective forces. As citizens of the US and of the world, it is our responsibility to actively drive these selective forces in positive directions rather than abdicate this moral responsibility to market forces.

About the Speaker

Karel Rogers is a retired Professor of Biology and former Chair of Biology at Grand Valley State University. Her research in paleoclimate has been funded by a series of grants from the National Geographic Society and the Climate Dynamics Program at the National Science Foundation. She is active in environmental work at the international, federal, state, and local levels as well as in working for systemic cultural change through political activism.

Additional Details

After the meeting, join us at Vitale’s Restaurant, 834 Leonard NE, Grand Rapids, MI to socialize. View Map

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Cost: $6.00 Suggested Donation or free for Friends of the Center.

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