in Sydney will be a members and friends meeting to be held:
at the March HuVAT meeting Humanist House 10 Shepherd St Chippendale 8 March 4 pm.
Refreshments will be served after the talk.
www.darwinday.org |
Darwin Day 200 and 150 Presented by Dr Victor BienThis will be our celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 12 February 1809 and also the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book The Origin of Species by natural selection in November 1859.
There will be time for questions and discussion. Charles Darwin (b. 12 Feb 1809) whose promulgation of the Theory of Evolution, or descent with modification through natural selection, has had as profound an effect on how we view and understand the natural world as any other scientific theory ever proposed. |
Some key points from the article: Darwin introduced historicity into science (chemistry and physics do not have this character); he rejected all supernatural explanations; he refuted typology or essentialism -which says living things are invariant and stable, they are not; variation characterises living things, refutation of typology amounts to refutation of racism amongst other things...
Access this page on the internet at www.hsnsw.asn.au and click on the Darwin Day link at the left.