Posted on 02/09/2006 12:15:02 PM PST by LouAvul
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Thanks to the "intelligent design" movement, Charles Darwin's birthday is evolving into everything from a badminton party to church sermons this weekend.
Defenders of Darwin's theory of natural selection are planning hundreds of events around the world Sunday, the 197th anniversary of his birth, saying recent challenges to the teaching of evolution have re-emphasized the need to promote his work.
"The people who believe in evolution ... really just sort of need to stand up and be counted," said Richard Leventhal, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. "Evolution is the model that drives science. It's time to recognize that."
The museum's celebration will include birthday cake, a little badminton (reportedly a favorite game of Darwin's) and a reading of his "The Origin of the Species" by Penn junior Bill Wames, who volunteered to dress up as the 19th-century naturalist.
"Come to my party!" Wames, in costume, bellowed Wednesday while handing out fliers around campus. "Sunday at one o'clock!"
At the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, philosophy students will get a jump-start on Darwin Day on campus Friday by singing Darwin carols they composed.
Darwin, who was born in England on Feb. 12, 1809, and died in 1882, was 50 when he published "The Origin of Species." His conclusion that species evolve over time was based in part on zoological and geological discoveries made during a five-year voyage around the world on the HMS Beagle.
The intelligent design movement challenges Darwin's theory, contending that organisms are so complex that they must have been created by some kind of higher being. Critics of intelligent design say it is creationism camouflaged in scientific language.
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Amen!
It's not "gravity", it's "intelligent falling".
It figures.
Second amen!
Happy birthday Derwood...
Maybe these scientists should put up a statue of Darwin and worship it...after all he has become their god....in fact, what a perfect replacement for Christmas for them.....Darwinmas....they can exchanges gifts, sing carols...gollllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Darwin could not have been born; he evolved.
"A sucker is born every minute" - P.T. Barnum
It is putting those who have bought into the theory - suckers...
WOW, you're fast! - Didn't get to see #12
> Maybe these scientists should put up a statue of Darwin and worship it
Why?
> after all he has become their god
And you're basing that on...?
< insert monkey suit joke >
"And you're basing that on...?"
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That's easy. The modification of the Christian fish symbol to include feet and "Darwin" on the inside of the fish. I see those on cars all the time. Basically they are sayng that Darwin replaces Christianity for them.
So be it. Good luck with all that.........
> Basically they are sayng that Darwin replaces Christianity for them.
Ahhh... no. Not even close.
When you get some free time, look up "sarcasm" and "satire."
Wow! Three deleted posts already. I have to admit that Darwin "carols" seem a bit much, though.
"When you get some free time, look up "sarcasm" and "satire."
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Foreign words. That's all. Such things don't exist...really. It's all serious. It's all good.
But, then again...
(to the tune of O little town of Bethlehem)
Oh little isle of Galapagos,
How far you are from here.
We've sailed for weeks to see your shores,
We've just run out of beer.
See finches in all colors
With beaks in several shapes.
We see it all so clearly now,
The shapes new species make.
The humans come from monkeys,
The birds from dinosaurs.
The changes happen slowly,
But they're happening for sure.
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