LAWRENCE - Victor J. Stenger, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, will visit the University of Kansas to present a lecture titled "Intelligent Design: The New Stealth Creationism," a critique of the intelligent design movement, which asserts that the existence of observed order in the universe can only be understood in terms of supernatural creation.

Stenger will speak at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. His visit is sponsored by Students for Science, the KU Cosmology Group, and members of the departments of physics and religious studies.

Stenger received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1963 and had an active research career in elementary particle physics and astrophysics in Hawaii. He has published and lectured extensively in his field as well as for the general public. His recent work has focused on analysis of intelligent design, which Stenger argues is a rhetorically-enhanced version of biblical creationism and as such is a work of philosophy of religion, not science.

For further information, contact Adrian Melott, (785) 864-3037; melott@kusmos.phsx.ku.edu.