Biologist and author Dr. Kenneth Miller, evolutionist and devout Catholic, to speak on “Common ground between God and Evolution” March 1 at Berea College

A professor of biology at Brown University, Miller is the author of Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution (1999). His study of evolution versus intelligent design has driven him to serve as a witness in court cases and serve on panels debating the issue of teaching intelligent design in public schools. Miller served as a witness in a case involving the Cobb County Georgia Board of Education in which the school system was ordered by a federal court judge to remove stickers from one of Miller’s own textbooks which suggested that evolution was just a theory.

Miller completed his undergraduate work at Brown University and earned a PhD at the University of Colorado. Before returning to teach on the faculty at Brown in 1980, Miller taught at Harvard University for six years.

Some of Miller’s other works on evolution include, Life’s Grand Design and The Failure of “Design.” In addition to his study of evolution, he has published more than 50 scientific papers and reviews on his research on cell membrane structure and function. Miller also has co-authored, with Joseph S. Levine, three different high school and college biology text books, titled “Biology.”

For more information, visit Miller’s site here.

Presented as the 2007 Berea College Science Lecture, the event is free and open to the public.