Talks

Recent talks. If you're interested in having me speak somewhere, contact me.

• "Random Adventures in Physics and Weirdness" Physics Colloquium at the University of Iowa, October 19, 2009. [PowerPoint, 50 min]

• "Angry Atheists and Soulless Scientists: Stereotypes of nonbelief in the era of the 'New Atheism'" Truman Folklore Colloquium, October 5, 2009. [PowerPoint, 45 min]

• "Between Nasr and Ateş: What Understanding of Evolution do Science Educators Want?" Darwin and Evolution in the Muslim World conference, October 3, 2009. [PowerPoint, 20 min]

• "Rejecting Materialism" McGill Symposium on Islam and Evolution, March 31, 2009. [PowerPoint, 30 min]

• "Where does Intelligent Design stand today?" Columbia public library, October 4, 2008. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "A Matter of Scale, or, Why you should be scared" Truman State University, January 31, 2008. [PowerPoint, 10 min]

• "Science and Nonbelief: How Chance and Necessity Explain our World" CFI-Michigan, January 9, 2008. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "Science and Religion in Islam" Various Ontario universities and CFI-West, 2007. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "What Cost Rationality?" Center for Inquiry Community and Student Leadership Conference, June 15, 2007. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "The Creation/Evolution Debate in the Muslim World" University of Kansas, April 3, 2007. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "Religion: Accident or Design?" International Conference on the Evolution of Religion, Hawaii, January 6, 2007. [PowerPoint, 20 min]

• "An Accidental World," Lecture for the Summer Institute held by the Jefferson Center, Ashland, OR. August 5, 2006. [PowerPoint, 1.5 h]

• "Chance and Necessity...and 'Intelligent Design'?" Truman State University Biology Seminar, November 22, 2002, and Association of Southeastern Biologists conference, April 15, 2005. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "Intelligent Design: Bad Science, Bad Philosophy, or Both?" Council for Secular Humanism's Conference in Washington DC, April 12, 2003. [PowerPoint, 30 min]

• "The Ghost in the Universe," Based on my book of the same title. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "Intelligent Design: Creationism Evolves Again," Iowa State University, October 29, 2002; Nova Southeastern University, February 3, 2003, and other occasions. [PowerPoint, 1 h]

• "Exorcizing All The Ghosts?" James Randi Educational Foundation conference, February 2, 2003. [PowerPoint, 20 min]

• "Diversity within Science and its Community," Diversity Day talk at Truman State University, March 26, 2002. [PowerPoint, 20 min]

• "Creationism to Universal Darwinism," Darwin Day talk at Truman State University, February 12, 2002. [PowerPoint, 30 min]

• "A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam," Presented at the Center for Inquiry International Conference on "Science and Religion," November 11, 2001. [PowerPoint, 30 min]

• "Where Science and Religion Disagree," given as part of a panel presentation on "Science and Religion," Truman State University, October 15 2001. [HTML, 15 min]