Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose

In his extraordinary new book, Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, renowned Brazilian chemist Marcos Eberlin explores a gold rush of recent scientific discoveries that pose a grave challenge to modern evolutionary theory. Drawing on his expertise as former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, Dr. Eberlin uncovers a myriad of artful solutions to major engineering challenges in the biological realm, solutions that point beyond blind evolution to the workings of an attribute unique to minds — foresight.

When

Thursday, May 2, 7:30 PM*
*A reception will be held from 6:30-7:30 PM, with the lecture beginning at 7:30 PM.

Where

Fieldstead and Company
17512 Von Karman Ave.
Irvine, CA 92614

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Marcos Nogueira Eberlin

_{Member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Mackenzie University}

A member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Marcos Eberlin received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and served as a postdoc at Purdue University. Back at UNICAMP, he founded and coordinated for 25 years the ThoMSon Mass Spectrometry (MS) Laboratory, making it an internationally recognized research center, one of the best-equipped and innovative MS laboratories worldwide. Eberlin has published nearly 1,000 scientific articles and is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the title of Commander of the National Order of Scientific Merit (2005) from Brazil’s President, the Zeferino Vaz Award (2002) for excellence in teaching and research.

This event is co-sponsored by Fieldstead and Company, Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture, and the Southern California Chapter of the Science & Culture Network. For questions, contact Ann Hirou (Fieldstead and Company) at (760) 520-3939.