‘Your government suppresses the science that doesn’t fit its
religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future
generations to pay a terrible price’
( from The World Can’t Wait Call to Drive Out the Bush
Regime
May 2nd – Columbia University
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! Presents
An Evening with Niles
Eldredge
Curator of the Division of Paleontology and the Darwin exhibition at the American Museum
of Natural History
Dr. Eldredge, a signatory of The World Can’t Wait Call to
Drive Out the Bush Regime, will discuss the battle over evolution as a
microcosm of the state of affairs in society.
Introduced by David Helfand,
Chair, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
6.30 PM, Tuesday, May 2nd
Pupin Hall Room 301, Columbia University
[116th Street
and Broadway, #1 train to 116th St.]
In 1972, Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, another
pre-eminent paleontologist, proposed the
theory of punctuated equilibrium, a refinement to evolutionary theory which
describes patterns of descent taking place in “fits and starts”
separated by long periods of stability. Eldredge is the author of many books
including ‘Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of
Evolutionary Theory’ and ‘The Triumph of Evolution…And the Failure of Creationism.’
Limited seating, reservations:
www.worldcantwait.org
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The World Can’t Wait- Drive Out the Bush Regime is a
national organization aimed at “creating a political situation where the
Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office,
and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed through
the independent political action of millions societywide.”
The World Can’t Wait Call has been published in the New York
Times and other publications, and has been signed by nearly 20,000 people,
including:
Edward Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, Ariel Dorfman,
Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Jane Fonda,
Paul Haggis, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, Jessica Lange,
Lewis Lapham, Tom Morello, Sean Penn, Scott Ritter, Dennis Rivera, Scott
Ritter, Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Sayles, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan,
Martin Sheen, Gloria Steinem, Serj Tankian, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Cornel
West, Ann Wright, U.S. Congressional Representatives John Conyers, Cynthia
McKinney, Major Owens, Bobby Rush, Maxine Waters, and thousands more.