{"id":139,"date":"2009-06-22T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T05:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-07-16T07:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T12:38:30","slug":"in-the-light-of-evolution-iii-two-centuries-of-darwin-sackler-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/in-the-light-of-evolution-iii-two-centuries-of-darwin-sackler-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin &#8211; Sackler Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a series of papers from a recent Sackler colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences entitled &#8220;<span class=\"PageSubheading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=Sackler_darwin\">In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin<\/a><\/span><span class=\"PageSubheading\">&#8220;. You can watch most of the presentations online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=SACKLER_Darwin_program\">here<\/a>. The conference papers are published in a supplemental issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/suppl.1\">PNAS<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I read<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Dennett\"> Daniel Dennett<\/a>&#8216;s paper because of my personal interest. He is a philosopher in science. In his paper, he provides a simple overview on why it is not necessary to have an intelligent designer to make complicated biological machines.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reference<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dennett D. Darwin&#8217;s &#8220;strange inversion of reasoning&#8221;. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 15. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/19528651\">PubMed<\/a>][<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/suppl.1\/10061.full.pdf+html\">pdf<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a series of papers from a recent Sackler colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences entitled &#8220;In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin&#8220;. You can watch most of the presentations online here. The conference papers are published in a supplemental issue of the PNAS. I read Daniel Dennett&#8216;s paper because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[38,447,39,37,35,36],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-faisharing","tag-daniel-dennett","tag-evolution","tag-intelligent-design","tag-nas","tag-pnas","tag-sackler-colloquium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}