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Noted scholar and skeptic Michael Shermer, PhD, will present the free lecture, 鈥淲hy Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Battle for Science and Religion鈥� at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 19, in the Bilyeu Theatre in Frazier Hall on the 色花堂app Pocatello campus.

Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, 鈥淓xploring the Unknown.鈥�

Shermer will be available after the talk to sign his books: 鈥淲hy People Believe Weird Things, How we Believe,鈥� 鈥淏orderlands of Science,鈥� and 鈥淭he Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule.鈥�

Co-sponsors of Shermer鈥檚 talk are ISU College of Arts and Sciences, Associated Students of ISU, ISU Cultural Affairs Committee, ISU Office of 色花堂app, ISU Department of Geosciences, ISU Department of Psychology and Idaho Museum of Natural History.

He also is the author of 鈥淪cience Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown,鈥� about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. He wrote a biography, 鈥淚n Darwin鈥檚 Shadow,鈥� about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. He also wrote  鈥淒enying History,鈥� on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudo history. His book 鈥淗ow We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God,鈥� presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God. He is also the author of 鈥淲hy People Believe Weird Things鈥� on pseudoscience and superstitions.

鈥淢ichael Shermer, as head of one of America鈥檚 leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life,鈥� noted the late Stephen Jay Gould in his Foreword to 鈥淲hy People Believe Weird Things.鈥�

Shermer received his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Pepperdine University, Master of Arts degree in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his PhD from Caltech. He has appeared on such shows as 鈥�20/20,鈥� 鈥淒ateline,鈥� 鈥淐harlie Rose,鈥� 鈥淟arry King Live,鈥� 鈥淭om Snyder,鈥� 鈥淒onahue,鈥� 鈥淥prah,鈥� 鈥淯nsolved Mysteries,鈥� and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel.