Day of Reckoning: Evolution Sunday is coming to a church near you

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Stymied by a federal judge in their attempt to inject religious dogma into the public school science classroom, proponents of “intelligent design” are now staring down the barrel of another humiliation. On Sunday, churches throughout America will open their arms and embrace the theory of evolution.

The brainchild of Wisconsin biology professor Michael Zimmerman, Evolution Sunday celebrates Charles Darwin’s theory of the origin of species by teaching evolution in more than 400 church congregations in forty-nine states across the country.

“The goal is to make it clear that religion and science are not adversaries,” said Zimmerman, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. “There is nothing in Christianity that precludes modern science.”

Zimmerman has been involved in the debate over creation science for the last twenty-five years, often called upon to defend the teaching of evolution in public schools. The fact that Evolution Sunday, with a date chosen to coincide with Darwin’s birthday, will take place less than two months after Judge John E. Jones III unmasked ID as little more than repackaged creation science in Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District is simply icing on the cake.

http://www.science-spirit.org/article_detail.php?article_id=591

Also, the Evolution Sunday website: http://www.uwosh.edu/colleges/cols/rel_evol_sun.htm

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1. We should all media blast this

There's a link in there that shows which churches are going to be doing this. We could send the short quip on the web site to local media and maybe some of the local churches would get some coverage.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.php?az=blaster

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2. kick for the daytime crowd.

:kick:

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3. kick again n/t