Robyn Williams speaks about Unintelligent Design

24 October 2006

Intelligent Design has found its way into the headlines and is now trying to slink into our schools. So where did this wilfully ignorant sibling of creationism and its anti-scientific arguments spring from? And why is it refusing to go away?

Described as a "witty and wicked" debunking of Intelligent Design, Robyn Williams argues that if God really created the universe, she made a hash of it.

Why, for instance, do female koalas have a downward-opening pouch? And if the intelligent designer was so clever, why are humans plagued by sinus blockages, piles, bad breath, farting and a useless appendix?

Robyn Williams presents science programs on ABC radio and television. A fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, he was a Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and is now Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales.

What: Robyn Williams speaks about his new book, Unintelligent Design

When: 6pm Thursday 26 October 2006

Where: Law Building, main lecture theatre, Room G04 (map reference, F8)

Contact: Rachelle Carritt: 9385 7307 or r.carritt@unsw.edu.au

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