Richard Dawkins at Stanford

The rise of religiously motivated threats to scientific practice and instruction in American schools has motivated biologist Richard Dawkins and physicist Lawrence Krauss to engage in a public dialogue on strategies for science education in the twenty-first century. Their open conversation concerning science literacy and related issues began in the July 2007 Scientific American.

They continued their discussion last Saturday, March 9, with a sold-out event at Stanford University's Memorial Hall, in front of a very attentive and appreciative audience... including me, sitting in the front row!

"If we are going to teach the controversy of evolution,
then we should teach the controversy of reproduction,"
said Dawkins.
"There is the sex theory and there is the stork theory,
and they should get equal time."