[SustainableTompkins] Darwin Day, Feb 10

[Tony Del Plato]

Celebrate  Darwin Day: An International Recognition of Science and Humanity

Join Kol Haverim, the Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic Judaism in this
world-wide celebration.  The festivities are free and will be on February
10 from 3:00-5:00pm at Lifelong Center (119 W. Court St, Ithaca).

We'll celebrate Darwin's Birthday with a deliciously evolved and naturally
selected cake, followed by a philosophical discussion led by Will Provine,
Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at
Cornell.  Dr. Provine will talk about Darwin and his deeply religious
friend and colleague, Asa Gray. The conversations between Gray and Darwin,
sparked by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, are still
relevant to current discussions between religious and non-religious people

For children, there will be natural selection games and a reading of the
evolution-based children's book "Tree of Life".

There will be information about legislative issues concerning the role of
science in public policy from the Secular Coalition for America and the new
Center for Inquiry in DC.


Caren B. Cooper, PhD
Research Associate
Bird Population Studies
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Ithaca, NY  14850

(w) 607 254-2401
fax 607 254-2104
cbc25 at cornell.edu

 http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/cbc25/

Coordinator for My Yard Counts!
 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/MyYardCounts


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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein