SUNDAY, MARCH 1 | 10:30 AM | SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND HUMAN WELL-BEING
We will enjoy a fun day of interactive learning and celebration of science. It will be a great time for humans 1 to 100!
International Darwin Day is celebrated on February 12th to inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual bravery, perpetual curiosity and learning, scientific exploration, and hunger for truth. Darwin Day is a day of celebration, activism, and international cooperation for the advancement of science, education, and human well-being.
To learn more about Charles Darwin, his involvement in the abolitionist movement, and understand what he risked by publishing On the Origin of Species, we recommend the following, well-researched book, Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins by renowned Darwin scholars, Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Darwin’s belief in human unity was in direct contrast to many of his contemporaries.