'Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price'
( from The World Can't Wait Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime

May 2nd 
The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime! Presents
An Evening with Niles Eldredge

Curator of the Division of Paleontology and the Darwin exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History

Dr. Eldredge, a signatory of The World Can't Wait Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime, will discuss the battle over evolution as a microcosm of the state of affairs in society.

Introduced by David Helfand,
Chair, Department of Astronomy, Columbia University

6.30 PM, Tuesday, May 2nd
Pupin Hall Room 301, Columbia University
[116th Street and Broadway, #1 train to 116th St.]

In 1972, Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould, another pre-eminent  paleontologist, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium, a refinement to evolutionary theory which describes patterns of descent taking place in "fits and starts" separated by long periods of stability. Eldredge is the author of many books including 'Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory' and 'The Triumph of Evolution...And the Failure of Creationism.'

Limited seating, reservations: 

eveningwithniles@yahoo.com

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The World Can't Wait- Drive Out the Bush Regime is a national organization aimed at "creating a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking society is reversed through the independent political action of millions societywide." 

The World Can't Wait Call has been published in the New York Times and other publications, and has been signed by nearly 20,000 people, including:

Edward Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Belafonte, Ariel Dorfman, Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Jane Fonda, Paul Haggis, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, Jessica Lange, Lewis Lapham, Tom Morello, Sean Penn, Scott Ritter, Dennis Rivera, Scott Ritter, Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Sayles, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Gloria Steinem, Serj Tankian, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Ann Wright, U.S. Congressional Representatives John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney, Major Owens, Bobby Rush, Maxine Waters, and thousands more.

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