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Pulitzer-prize Author Discusses Scopes Trial at May 21 event

Edward J. Larson, PhD, Pulitzer-prize winning author, will lecture on “George McCready Price at the Crossroads of Creationism’s History,” at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, May 21, in Damazo Amphitheater, Centennial Complex, Loma Linda University. Mr. Price was an Adventist who taught at LLU. Dr. Larson is an American historian and legal scholar at Pepperdine University, who specializes in religion and science issues. His Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion won the 1998 Pulitzer prize for history. Brian Bull, MD, professor and chair for the department of pathology and human anatomy, and Ben Clausen, PhD, Geoscience Research Institute researcher, will make brief responses. A Q&A session will follow. The event is sponsored by the School of Religion. For more information, contact the school at (909) 558-4536.

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