In connection with evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins’s visit to NSU, the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences Division of Humanities will host a faculty panel titled “Inheriting Inherit the Wind: The Separation of Religion and Education.” The event will take place on Monday, Feb. 14, from noon to 1:00 p.m., in the Alvin Sherman Library, room 2053.
The panel will explore developments in the separation of religion and education since the groundbreaking 1925 case of The State of Tennessee v. Scopes, nicknamed the “Monkey Trial.” The case came about after high-school teacher John Scopes taught evolution in his class, an unlawful act under Tennessee’s Butler Act. The 1955 play Inheriting the Wind is based on the Scopes trial.
Faculty participants include Stephen Levitt, LL.M., and Gary Gershman, J.D., Ph.D., associate professors, and David McNaron, Ph.D., professor. Legal, historical, and philosophical perspectives on the topic will be discussed.
For more information on this event, please contact Stephen Levitt at (954) 262-8210.
“Inheriting Inherit the Wind” serves as a companion event to the Distinguished Speakers Series talk by Richard Dawkins, D.Phil., titled “The Fact of Evolution.” Dawkins will speak at NSU on Thursday, Feb. 17, in the Arena at the Don Taft University Center, at 7:00 p.m. The lecture is free, but tickets are required. For more information, call (954) 262-8236.