BHA: Creation: synthetic biology and the origin of life
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
7:00 PM
Creation: synthetic biology and the origin of life
BHA 2012 Darwin Day Lecture
Chaired by Richard Dawkins, the 2012 Darwin Day lecture will be presented by renowned author, broadcaster, scientist, and geek Adam Rutherford.
Date: 8th February 2012
Time: 7:00 for a 7:30pm start - 9:30pm
Venue: Congress Hall, Congress Centre 28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS
Dr Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author and broadcaster, as well as an editor at the science journal Nature. He presents television and radio programmes and is a writer for The Guardian newspaper.
Tickets General public: £12
Members and students: £7 (BHA, AHS, CFI and UKAFHA members and students)
http://www.humanism.org.uk/meet-up/events/view/167
Disclaimer: Press releases published on this page are from key opinion formers
who promote their organisation's activities by subscribing to a campaign site within
politics.co.uk. politics.co.uk does not endorse, edit, or attempt to balance the
opinions expressed on this page. The content of press releases are wholly the responsibility
of the originating company or organisation.
MPs are being asked to support a move to have Charles Darwin's birthday made a public holiday in Britain.
Events are taking place across the country to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.
Every secondary school in England and Wales will receive a free DVD by renowned atheist Richard Dawkins to celebrate the anniversary of Darwin's Origin of the Species.
The Vatican has accepted the theory of evolution is compatible with Christianity, in a move welcomed by British Catholics.
Activists intend to demonstrate around the Bank of England next week in a protest against G20 policing.
London has gone into lockdown ahead of what Scotland Yard is describing as the most challenging public order operation it has ever devised.
Thousands of people hit the streets of central London on Saturday to demand jobs and public services for all, in the first sign of a concerted protest movement prompted by the global economic downturn.
The editorials today are almost exclusively focused on the outcomes of the G20 summit and analysis of the announcements made last night regarding the stimulus plan.
The Mayor of London has established a civil liberties panel whose first task will be to look into the policing of the G20 protests.
Police in Plymouth are continuing to question four people arrested yesterday under the Terrorism Act.
