Invited Talks

Confirmation has been received from the following invited speakers:

Prof. Juleon Schins: "Causality in evolution"
Prof. Rafael Martinez: "Darwin and the Vatican: The reception of evolutionary theories in the Catholic Church"
Prof. Daniel Turbon: "Darwin: his scientific work and the way it has been misunderstood" (provisional title)
Prof. Massimiliano Berti: To be defined
Prof. Vuko Brigljevic: To be defined
Prof. Mike Kelleher: "Does the Nature and Function of DNA Demand the Existence of an Extra-terrestrial Intelligence?"
Prof. Geoffrey Woollard: "The origin of the first life"
Prof. Antoine Suarez: "Where Richard Dawkins is right"
Prof. Rafael Martinez: "Evolution, creation and design: can philosophy and science agree?"
Prof. Miguel de Arce: "Twenty two original Darwin letters found in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin: A story of obsession"

Some quotes and useful documents.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Charles Darwin

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. Charles Darwin

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. Charles Darwin

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Charles Darwin

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin

Theory of evolution

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