FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Darwin comes to Washington!

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

This probably couldn't have happened during the past 8 years but  
tomorrow there will be a symposium at the Museum of Natural History

        
EVENT HIGHLIGHT


Darwin Anniversary Symposium- On Saturday, Sept. 12, the museum is  
hosting an all day symposium celebrating the bicentennial of Charles  
Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his  
book “On the Origin of Species.” Saturday, September 12. 8:30 a.m. – 5  
p.m.



opening a major exhibit:

The symposium coincides with the opening of the museum's newest  
exhibit, "Since Darwin: The Evolution of Evolution," which seeks to  
illuminate how knowledge of evolution has changed since the mid-19th  
century. The exhibit runs through July 18.

No doubt there will be protests since this is taxpayer money! How dare  
a federal museum say <knowledge> when evolution is <only a theory>!

This raises again the old question of what this society owes to its  
children. They should be protected from abuse. Isn't preventing them  
from being exposed to knowledge (and substituting mythological  
nonsense) a form of abuse? Adults, of course, should have an absolute  
right to reject knowledge and espouse anything in he name of religious  
freedom -- as long as they don't harm others because of heir exercise  
of that freedom.

But aren't children protected <others>?

Bob