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Humanist Forum Lectures and Discussion Series

Lecture	"Baby dinosaurs in the Ark?" - Reflections on organic evolution, creationism and intelligent design.
Lecturer	Professor Julian Kenny
Date	Wednesday 18 January 2006
Time	5pm - 7pm
Venue	Audio-Visual Room, National Library, Port of Spain
Admission	Open
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Abstract	The lecture commences with a statement on the nature of scientific theories and scientific methods, the current concept of a “species” as a gene pool reproductively isolated from other gene pools and traces the history of explanations of the diversity of life and the basics of Darwin’s and Wallace’s proposal of evolution. It then reviews the current scientific acceptance of the fact and theory of evolution, giving examples of micro and macro-evolution and the range of evidence that supports this. It briefly comments on creationism and intelligent design, concluding that these notions are not science.
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Julian Kenny • Biography
Date of Birth	27th January 1930
Nationality	Citizen Trinidad & Tobago
Education	School: Belmont Intermediate, St Mary’s College University: Toronto, BA, London PhD
Employment	1952-1961: Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries 1963-1992: University of the West Indies, St Augustine.
Interests	Aquatic sciences generally – in particular; freshwater ecology, fish and fisheries biology, marine ecology and biology, coral reef ecology and general natural history.
Research	15 U.W.I. PhDs, 14 U.W.I. M.Phils, one external PhD, one External MSc.
Julian Kenny • Publications
1967	Feeding mechanisms in anuran larvae. J. Zool. Lond. 157, 225-246
1969	The Amphibia of Trinidad, Stud. Fauna Curacao, 29, No. 108, 1-78
1976	A preliminary study of the Buccoo Reef/Bon Accord Complex. Department of Biological Sciences UWI. 123p
1983	Caribbean commonwealth fisheries; some development problems and development strategies. Maritime issues in the Caribbean. 98-108, University Presses, Florida. (Jhabvala, F., Editor)
1987	1987. The native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean. Macmillan. 88p
1988	1988. Hermatypic scleractinian corals of Trinidad. Stud, Fauna Curacao, No 123, 83
1995	Views from the Bridge; a memoir on the freshwater fishes of Trinidad. Julian Kenny, 98 p, illustrated, 59 maps, 37 photographs
2000	2000. Views from the Ridge; Exploring the natural history of Trinidad and Tobago. Prospect Press, Trinidad and Tobago; 162 p, illustrated