Science, Reason & Religion Forum in Oakton

Join us for a presentation on Art, Psychology, Evolution and the Public: Their Relations to Science in the 21st Century that will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, 2709 Hunter Mill Rd. in Oakton, VA on Sunday, November 22 from 12:30pm to 2pm. The event will be held in the Sanctuary Building (top of the hill, at right).

The speaker will be Pierre D. Glynn, Chief, Eastern Branch, National Research Program, U.S. Geological Survey and Water Representative to USGS Science and Decisions Center.

The complexity and uncertainty of science today, termed “post-normal science, require extraordinary efforts to build public engagement and understanding. We must compare our personal beliefs and stores of information to facts as scientists know them today. Moreover, as human beings, we have values and biases that affect our perception of information. Yet, environmental pressures will produce communities of "winners" and "losers" as well as other biotic species. Our survival will require adaptive management, knowledge of behavioral psychology, economics, ethics and sociology. In the past, the human dimensions of these issues carried a weight of complexities and uncertainties; today, the challenges before us are even greater. Understanding and solving them requires an adaptive management framework: that is the subject of our presentation.

This is a free event and is open to the public. All are welcome!

Directions: https://uucf.org/directions/