DSU presents Evolution and Creation: Conflicting or Compatible?

Are evolution and creation conflicting or compatible? This question will be addressed by Dr. Patricia Kelley at a public appearance on Thursday, April 24 at 7 p.m. in the Stroup Scientific Auditorium, Murphy Hall.

Kelley is a professor of geology at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. As a specialist in mollusk evolution and wife of a Presbyterian minister, she is keenly interested in teaching evolution and addressing the evolution vs. creation controversy.

Kelley was educated as a paleontologist at the College of Wooster and Harvard, where she received her doctorate under the late Stephen J. Gould, eminent paleontologist, evolutionary biologist and historian of science. She is the former chair of the Department of Geology at the University of North Dakota, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past president of the Paleontological Society and the Paleontological Research Institution’s Board of Trustees. She received the 2003 Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Women Geoscientists.

Kelley’s appearance at DSU is sponsored by the DSU Department of Natural Sciences and the The National Association of Geoscience Teachers Distinguished Speaker Series.

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