News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 10/14/03   PROFESSORS PRESENT PROGRAM ON EVOLUTION AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN       HAMMOND – Southeastern Louisiana University professor Barbara Forrest is one of three experts on the topic of evolution who will participate is a special program, “Evolution and Intelligent Design,” at Louisiana State University on October 29.       The free program is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the LSU Student Union Feliciana Room.       Forrest, who teaches philosophy at Southeastern, will speak on “What is Intelligent Design? Why Should We Care?” She will be joined on the program by LSU’s James Taylor, assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies, who will serve as moderator, and Trenton Holliday, associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University, whose topic is “Human Evolution: Thousands of Fossils and Growing.”       One of Forrest’s scholarly interests is the threat to public school science education stemming from intelligent design creationism. Taylor teaches ethics and applied ethics, which are also his research specialties, while Holliday is a human paleontologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in Late Pleistocene human evolution. His research interests are Eurasian Neandertals and early modern humans.       Co-sponsors of the program are Southeastern’s Department of History and Political Science, LSU’s Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies’ Fund for Ethics, Museum of Natural Science; Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Association of Biology Graduate Students. The program is also supported by the Center for Inquiry. Return to News Releases