Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin (and Abraham Lincoln). Blogs, museums and science writers have been celebrating the father of natural selection all week.
I myself will be attending the Darwin Day Celebration (PDF) on Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Varsity Theatre in Davis, CA. It is a free public lecture from UC Davis professors Maureen Stanton and Jonathan Eisen, and cake will be served.
There is already a lot on the Internet on Darwin’s birthday and evolution, so there is not too much point for me to try to list them here. I will highlight Evolution Weekend, which organizes churches and various religious organizations to celebrate science and faith. In mist of attacks on science education by creationists and intelligent design proponents, it is too easy to forget that there are many people who do not subscribe to the myth that their faith and evolutionary theory are somehow incompatible. I say this as a secular humanists who does not object to religion in general.
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