The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will be presenting a number of speakers for the Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution Series.  These lectures are free and open to the public.  They are held in the Biology Building auditorium on Hackberry Lane.  Here is the lineup for this year:

Monday Sep 28,2015 7pm,  Bill Nye, the Science Guy
“The Importance of Teaching Evolution”

Thursday Oct 15, 2015 7:30pm, Linda C. Ivany, Syracuse University
"The Pace of Life - The (often) Missing Element in Studies of Evolution Using Fossils"

Thursday November 12, 2015 7:30pm, Ron L. Numbers – University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Baptizing Dinosaurs: How Once-Suspect Evidence of Evolution Came to Support the Biblical Narrative”

Thursday Dec 3, 2015 7:30pm, Rebecca Burch – SUNY Oswego
“Semen Chemistry: Implications, Innovations, and Controversy”

Tuesday Feb 16, 2016 7:30pm, Morten H. Christiansen – Cornell University
“Darwin’s Insight: The Cultural Evolution of Language”

Thursday March 31, 2016 7:30pm, William “Lee” W. McCorkle Jr. – LEVYNA/Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
“Religion, a Cultural Virus: Evolutionary Approaches in the Historical, Anthropological, and Scientific Study of Religion”

Thursday Apr 14, 2016 7:30pm, Julia Clarke – University of Texas at Austin
“The Evolution of Birds”