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Simon
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USA
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 Posted - 12/09/2008 : 21:29:26
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Darwin day is going to be on February the 12th.
So, it is a wee bit away, but the closest event seems to be more than 10 hours drive from where I live, so I'd like to organize my own event and am starting to think about how to do it.
So far, I am thinking about organizing talks for grown-up (including low level introductory stuff to explain that the theory of evolution was not an atheist conspiracy designed by Satan on top of the tower of Babel.
And, for children, I am thinking about making bas relief models for the skeletons of some cute lineages (basically, by pouring drops of plaster following the printouts of skeletons).
This cute lineage would include dolphins and horses and the kid would pick up a card with a picture of his animal of choice, along with the card would come a diagram of a skeleton.
Then he would have to dig up the bas relief which would have been placed on different layers of sand and compare the different skeleton to see the slow evolution into the forms they now know...
I think kids would like that. Of course, there would be a theorical explanation to follow, using the examples they just dug up...
What do you guys think? Is making kids play with mock skeletons too morbid?
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 12/09/2008 : 22:39:52 [Permalink]
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Darwin Day 2009 isn't just any Darwin Day, but the bicentennial of Darwin's birth. Very exciting times for people who like numbers with more zeroes in them than other digits.
2009 also marks the 150th anniversary of the publishing of On the Origin of Species (November 24th).
It's going to be a pretty nifty year. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2008 : 09:36:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
I think Darwin Day would be better served learning about evolution and not about how to defend evolution from its critics. Teach about how (most) amphibians and reptiles have a three chambered heart, or how birds have sophisticated lungs which allow them to contain air while they are both inhaling and exhaling, or how birds have scales. Tell people about the Coelacanth or the sea sponge and how it relates to Cnidaria. |
Yes; that's what I meant.
An introduction to the Theory of Evolution, so that they realize that it is an extremely logical and well supported science that has nothing to do with Religion.
Although, I'd also like to go through several classic IDiotic argument and disprove them, probably using the Wedge document and other to illustrate that the whole ID is nothing but trying to by-pass the supreme court. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Darwin day!
