I will be in Baltimore at the end of week to give a couple of talks in honor of Darwin Day.
On Thursday, February 12, I will be speaking to the Baltimore Ethical Society. Pot luck dinner at 6:30 pm, with the talk beginning at 7:30. I will give a talk entitled Among the Creationists; I seem to recall a good book with that title. The talk will present some anecdotes from my experiences at creationist conferences, and will also discuss the various sources of conflict between evolution and religion.
Then, on Friday the 13th, I will be delivering a colloquium talk at the UMBC Math Department entitled, “Pseudomathematics in Anti-Evolutionist Literature.” I will provide a primer on some of the bad math that is ubiquitous in anti-evolutionist writing, focusing especially on arguments based on probability, the no free lunch theorems, and thermodynamics. This one is being put together a bit last minute, but my current information is that the talk will be at noon on Friday, in the Math/Psych building. I’ll post further information as I have it.
As it happens though, since I’m going to be at UMBC anyway, I’m also going to give a talk on the Monty Hall problem. That one’s scheduled for 11:00 am, again in the Math/Psych building. Goodness! Back-to-backers! I guess the two talks are united in that they both discuss poor probabilistic reasoning.
So, if you’re anywhere near Baltimore, stop by and say hello!
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I will be in Baltimore at the end of week to give a couple of talks in honor of Darwin Day.
On Thursday, February 12, I will be speaking to the Baltimore Ethical Society. Pot luck dinner at 6:30 pm, with the talk beginning at 7:30. I will give a talk entitled Among the Creationists; I seem to recall a good book with that title. The talk will present some anecdotes from my experiences at creationist conferences, and will also discuss the various sources of conflict between evolution and religion.
Then, on Friday the 13th, I will be delivering a colloquium talk at the UMBC Math Department entitled, “Pseudomathematics in Anti-Evolutionist Literature.” I will provide a primer on some of the bad math that is ubiquitous in anti-evolutionist writing, focusing especially on arguments based on probability, the no free lunch theorems, and thermodynamics. This one is being put together a bit last minute, but my current information is that the talk will be at noon on Friday, in the Math/Psych building. I’ll post further information as I have it.
As it happens though, since I’m going to be at UMBC anyway, I’m also going to give a talk on the Monty Hall problem. That one’s scheduled for 11:00 am, again in the Math/Psych building. Goodness! Back-to-backers! I guess the two talks are united in that they both discuss poor probabilistic reasoning.
So, if you’re anywhere near Baltimore, stop by and say hello!
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