FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Darwin comes to Washington!

[MADELINE SIMON (madeline-mpls]

Well, either the crazies will have two reasons to come to Washington DC that 
day, or, "heaven" forbid, they will be a little "fragmented" on their issues to 
protest.  The right wing and corporate/military/congressional power players do 
their best to keep the Peace, Justice & Environmental activists scurrying 
around on all kinds of side issues to fragment this community's efforts to make 
a real difference in the big picture.

Peace,
Madeline
 

> From: tappx001 [at] umn.edu
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:13:36 -0500
> Subject: [sa-talk] Darwin comes to Washington!
> CC: fussa-talk [at] muusja.org
> To: madeline-mpls [at] msn.com
> 
> 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
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