Darwin Day (5 of 5)
Series: Holiday Madness in January
Jeff Strite
Romans 1:18-23
OPEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6-g6Xe8kc (missing in action)
All this month we've been focusing on ''holidays'' in January that you may not have heard of. Today we're going to stretch a little outside the month to touch on the International Darwin Day that is celebrated February 12th and this year it celebrates the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
Now, the reason I accidentally included this in our list (of January special days) was because, when I first started looking at holidays in this month, I saw that the San Francisco Atheists celebrated his birthday on the 30th of this month (yesterday) and I mistakenly concluded that was the day everyone observed it. My bad.
This Tuesday (February 2nd) the Circular Congregational Church - in Charleston, SC - are sponsoring 10 events in 10 days to glorify Darwin. And of course there are numerous events on the 12th (Darwin's birthday) including on in Colorado sponsored by the ''Central Colorado Humanist.''
http://darwinday.org/events/
One site declared: ''International Darwin Day (is intended to) inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin.'' http://darwinday.org/about/
But despite the fact that Darwin's views on evolution had influenced culture for nearly 200 years, evolutionary scientists are still frustrated by the fact that only about 40% of Americans accept Darwin's theory of ''The Origin of the Species.'' (the name of his book)
(Newport, F. On Darwin's Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. Gallup News. Posted on gallup.com on February 11, 2009, accessed February 17, 2009.)
Actually, the full name of Darwin's book was:
''The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.' ...
Series: Holiday Madness in January
Jeff Strite
Romans 1:18-23
OPEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI6-g6Xe8kc (missing in action)
All this month we've been focusing on ''holidays'' in January that you may not have heard of. Today we're going to stretch a little outside the month to touch on the International Darwin Day that is celebrated February 12th and this year it celebrates the 207th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.
Now, the reason I accidentally included this in our list (of January special days) was because, when I first started looking at holidays in this month, I saw that the San Francisco Atheists celebrated his birthday on the 30th of this month (yesterday) and I mistakenly concluded that was the day everyone observed it. My bad.
This Tuesday (February 2nd) the Circular Congregational Church - in Charleston, SC - are sponsoring 10 events in 10 days to glorify Darwin. And of course there are numerous events on the 12th (Darwin's birthday) including on in Colorado sponsored by the ''Central Colorado Humanist.''
http://darwinday.org/events/
One site declared: ''International Darwin Day (is intended to) inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin.'' http://darwinday.org/about/
But despite the fact that Darwin's views on evolution had influenced culture for nearly 200 years, evolutionary scientists are still frustrated by the fact that only about 40% of Americans accept Darwin's theory of ''The Origin of the Species.'' (the name of his book)
(Newport, F. On Darwin's Birthday, Only 4 in 10 Believe in Evolution. Gallup News. Posted on gallup.com on February 11, 2009, accessed February 17, 2009.)
Actually, the full name of Darwin's book was:
''The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.' ...
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