Jersey City, N.J. – March 31, 2023 – Kenneth Miller, Ph.D., will deliver Saint Peter’s 71st Annual Mendel Lecture on April 3 at 5:00 p.m. in Pope Lecture Hall. The lecture, “The Human Difference: How Evolution Fashioned the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Creature,” will explain how the evolutionary process can be seen in the context of faith.
Kenneth R. Miller is a biology professor at Brown University and President of the National Center for Science Education. In addition to his research work in cell biology, he has written extensively on evolution and in 2005 served as lead witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial on evolution and intelligent design. His books include a popular series of high school biology textbooks as well as Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution (1999), Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul (2008) and The Human Instinct: How we evolved to have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will (2018). His honors include the Public Understanding of Science Award from AAAS, the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Gregor Mendel Medal from Villanova University and the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University.
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