The Central Colorado Humanists are hosting a special celebration in honor of Charles Darwin’s 209th birthday and International Darwin Day. Every year at this time groups all over the world celebrate Charles Darwin’s many contributions to science. “The mission of International Darwin Day is to inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity, scientific thinking, and hunger for truth as embodied in Charles Darwin.” – https://darwinday.org/about/
Come join us in the Pinon Room of the BV Community Center for this free and fascinating program, which will include a showing of the PBS NOVA film “Life’s Rocky Start”, followed by a discussion. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. Donations to the CCH scholarship fund will be gratefully accepted.
Summary: “Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place – a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid atmosphere. Then, in a process that has puzzled scientists for decades, life emerges. But how? NOVA joins mineralogist Robert Hazen as he journeys around the globe. From an ancient Moroccan market to the Australian Outback, he advances a startling and counterintuitive idea – that the rocks beneath our feet were not only essential to jump-starting life, but that microbial life helped give birth to hundreds of minerals we know and depend on today. It’s a theory of the co-evolution of Earth and life that is reshaping the grand-narrative of our planet’s story.” – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/life-rocky-start.html