Fwd: Life: Cosmic Accident or Cosmic Destiny, Cambridge, MA, October 10, 2003

From: Ted Davis (TDavis@messiah.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 16:55:54 EDT

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    LIFE: COSMIC ACCIDENT OR COSMIC DESTINY

    Friday October 10th, 7:00PM
    Harvard University Science Center, Lecture Hall B
    1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Does the cosmos have a purpose? Does life?

    Do we fit into anything beyond ourselves?

    Does science offer any insights into such questions?

    BE A PART OF THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE.

    PAUL DAVIES, Australian Centre for Astrobiology
    "Why is the universe bio-friendly?"

    SIMON CONWAY-MORRIS, University of Cambridge
    "What's inevitable in evolution?"

    JOIN THE CONVERSATION WITH DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS:

    CHRISTIAN DE DUVE, Rockefeller University, Nobel Laureate in Medicine

    EVELYN FOX KELLER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    MARTIN A. NOWAK, Harvard University

    OWEN GINGERICH, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Free Pizza & Soft Drinks (with Student ID) and Booksigning at 6:00PM

    FREE ADMISSION

    Space is limited. Please RSVP by email: info@metanexus.net

    LIMITED PARKING:
    http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2003-2004/resources/parking.jsp

    CAMPUS MAP:
    http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2003-2004/ext03map.pdf

    Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and Harvard faculty participating
    in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics research symposium, "The
    Fitness of the Environment: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning."

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