{"id":867,"date":"2009-01-17T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=867"},"modified":"2009-02-28T14:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:16:43","slug":"darwin-day-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Day Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is now less than a month before Darwin Day celebrations begin. Since 2009 is the bicentennial of Darwin&#8217;s birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of <cite>On the Origin of Species<\/cite>, it promises to be a particularly good time.\u00c2\u00a0 Colleges and universities, schools, libraries, museums, churches, civic groups all\u00c2\u00a0around\u00c2\u00a0the world, are preparing to celebrate Darwin Day, on or around February 12, in honor of the life and work of Charles Darwin. There are several such events taking place in Florida and I would encourage every one who stands up for real science to attend or participate in a local event <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinday.org\/events\/\">that is close to you<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethoughtflorida.com\/darwin.html\">One event in Ft Lauderdale<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freethoughtflorida.com\/cruise.html\">a raffle for a trip<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for two people to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador valued at $6000:00.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, in Darwin Day we are able to recognize the religious and cultural diversity among us,while we can celebrate our common humanity and the universal understanding in science we all share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is now less than a month before Darwin Day celebrations begin. Since 2009 is the bicentennial of Darwin&#8217;s birth and the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species, it promises to be a particularly good time.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-dZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":414,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=414","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":0},"title":"Darwin Day &#038; FCS Annual Meeting","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Darwin Day is coming up! See the main Darwin Day website for background on this annual event. Here in Florida there is a full day of Darwin in store for folks around Tallahassee Feb. 9 at FSU. There will be guest lectures and panel discussions by: Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2264,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2264","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":1},"title":"Darwin Day events 2015","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are three Darwin Day events coming up in the next few weeks: 1. Humanists of Sarasota Bay will host a Darwin Day event: Nancy Howell, professor emerita of sociology at the University of Toronto, will be speaking on \"Human Evolution: A Kalahari Perspective\" at 11:30 a.m. on February 7,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2264#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=882","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":2},"title":"Additional Darwin Day events","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to all who have been telling me about Florida Darwin Day \/ Year of Science events. Here are a couple more. A full event list can be found on the bottom of our home page. >> South Florida Community College will be hosting a Darwin Day Event on Thursday,February\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=882#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1811,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1811","url_meta":{"origin":867,"position":3},"title":"Darwin Day stuff","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't found very much about Darwin Day in Florida yet, but here is what I know about. If you have an event I missed, mention it in the comments. 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