Science and the Search for
the Origin of Life
Bill Mesler
Author and
Journalist
Bill Mesler
will be discussing his new book, A Brief
History of Creation. Described as a
“rich, masterfully woven tale of our still-evolving ideas about life and
how it came to be” by author and scientist Sean Carroll, A Brief History of Creation is the epic tale of the often quixotic
search to understand perhaps the most important question science has ever
faced. It is a story that encompasses
many of the seminal moments in the history of science, and is filled with some
of its most colorful and iconoclastic thinkers – Darwin, Pasteur, Crick and
Woese, to name just a few.
Mesler will examine how the scientific search has been shaped by
religion, philosophy and even politics.
He will discuss how the march of scientific progress is not nearly as
straightforward as we often assume.
Bill Mesler is a veteran journalist who has worked for the daily Santa Cruz Sentinel, the weekly San Francisco Bay Guardian and The Nation magazine.
Saturday, January 9, 2016
1:30 pm
* * * I M P O R T A N T * * *
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be unable to use the National Science Foundation for this Saturday’s NCAS talk. Instead, the talk will be held in the atrium behind The Front Page, which is in the same building as NSF (4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA).
The Front Page
4201 Wilson Blvd
Rear Atrium
Arlington, VA
frontpagearlington.com/
www.nsf.gov/about/visit
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be unable to use the National Science Foundation for this Saturday’s NCAS talk. Instead, the talk will be held in the atrium behind The Front Page, which is in the same building as NSF (4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA).
The Front Page
4201 Wilson Blvd
Rear Atrium
Arlington, VA
frontpagearlington.com/
www.nsf.gov/about/visit
FREE admission – Everyone welcome, members and non-members
Refreshments and socializing after the talk.
