Date/Time

Location
Franklin Township Public Library
485 DeMott Lane
Somerset, New Jersey

Details:

Guest speaker Dr. Brian Regal of Kean University

Topic: How Charles Darwin’s name has been appropriated and bastardized by creationists.

The term ‘Darwinist’ originally meant someone adhering to the British naturalist’s explanation for how living things evolve.  Because advances in the knowledge of genetics, the fossil record, and other fields have advanced beyond Darwin’s original ideas, evolutionary biologists and other scientists have stopped using the appellation.  Creationists, however, have adopted using the term, not out of respect for someone who made a major contribution to knowledge, but as an insult and coded term for religious and cultural enemy of conservative Christianity.

Please come at 1:00 pm for snacks and to socialize.  The program will start at approximately 1:30 pm.  Afterward we usually dine at the Stage House Tavern right around the corner from the library.  All are welcome to join us.

Franklin Township Public Library
485 DeMott Lane
Somerset, NJ 08873
(map and directions)