The IDEA Club here at Cornell issued a press release on the upcoming events this week. In it they have more information on Cornelius Hunter and the other participants:

Ithaca, New York, April 2, 2006 — The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club at Cornell University is hosting a panel discussion on evolution and intelligent design, with professors Richard Harrison, chair of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell, Kern Reeve, of the Cornell Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Cornelius Hunter, professor of Biophysics at Biola University. Don Bilderback, associate director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) and a professor in Cornell’s Applied Physics Department, will moderate the discussion. This event is co-sponsored by the Bioethics Society of Cornell, and is free and open to the public.

The panel discussion will be held from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday April 5th at Olin Hall 155. The audience will be given the opportunity to ask questions.

At 5:00 p.m. of the same day in Olin Hall 165 Hunter will also give a lecture entitled Evolution and Intelligent Design: Where we are and how we got here. He will detail the history of evolutionary thought and how modern advances in the biological sciences seriously undermine the neo-Darwinian synthesis.

Cornelius Hunter is an adjunct professor of biophysics at Biola University in Southern California. His research involves optimal estimation and control of nonlinear systems and molecular biophysics. Hunter is the author of several books critiquing evolutionary theory, including the award-winning Darwin’s God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil. He is also a fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, one of the nation’s foremost think tanks researching intelligent design.

The Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) Club at Cornell University is a student organization dedicated to promoting open and thoughtful discussion on issues related to evolution, intelligent design, and origins. The IDEA Club sponsors public science lectures and forums on the intelligent design evolution debate and holds weekly discussion meetings.

Hat tip: The Design Paradigm