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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2014, 08:55 PM Feb 2014

Darwin Day celebrations evolve with parties, proclamations

Kimberly Winston

(RNS) Happy Darwin Day! A time to play pin the tail on the sparrow, partake of “phylum feasts” (potluck dinners where the ingredients come from many different species), and generally give a thumbs-up to evolution’s godfather, Charles Darwin, on his 205th birthday, Wednesday (Feb. 12).

A growing number of Americans of varied religious backgrounds are marking the 1809 birthday of the British naturalist whose masterpiece “On The Origin of Species” has never been out of print since its publication in 1859.

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/02/11/americans-celebrate-charles-darwins-birthday/

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Darwin Day celebrations evolve with parties, proclamations (Original Post) hrmjustin Feb 2014 OP

I wonder if many churches join the celebration goldent Feb 2014 #1

Good question. hrmjustin Feb 2014 #2

Just as an aside, Fortinbras Armstrong Feb 2014 #3

goldent

(1,582 posts)

1. I wonder if many churches join the celebration

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 02:10 AM

Feb 2014

it will cause the anti-religious to loose interest?

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. Good question.

Reply to goldent (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 02:36 AM

Feb 2014

But I doubt it would make them stop complaining.

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,477 posts)

3. Just as an aside,

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Wed Feb 12, 2014, 07:14 AM

Feb 2014

Abraham Lincoln was born on the same day as Charles Darwin.

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