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Friday, November 20, 2009
 
 
EVENTS
Darwinism and Conservatism: Friends or Foes?
Date: Thursday, May 3, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM — 11:30 AM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
 
 
About This Event

There is a growing debate among conservative thinkers and pundits about whether Darwinian theory helps or harms conservatism and its public policy agenda. Some have argued forcefully that Darwin's theory provides support for conservative positions on family life, economics, bioethics, and other issues, while others have countered that the effort to justify conservative policy positions on Darwinian grounds is fundamentally flawed. Does Darwin's theory help defend or undermine traditional morality and family life? Does it encourage or discredit economic freedom? Is it a spur or a brake to utopian schemes to re-engineer human nature?

 
Agenda
8:45 a.m. 
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9:00
Introduction
Steven F. Hayward, AEI
 
 
 
9:10
Speakers
Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois University
 
 
John Derbyshire, National Review
 
 
George Gilder, Discovery Institute
 
 
John West, Discovery Institute
 
 
 
 
Moderator
Steven F. Hayward, AEI
 
 
 
11:30  
Adjournment
 
 
 
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