Darwin Day

Discovery Institute tells us what happened to Lincoln's Birthday

February 12 used to be celebrated in schoolrooms across America as Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Not anymore. In recent years, schools, museums, and community groups have decided to use the day to celebrate the birthday of the father of evolution instead. Darwin Day celebrations provide an eye-opening glimpse into the world of grassroots Darwinian fundamentalism, an alternate reality where atheism is the conventional wisdom and where traditional religious believers are viewed with suspicion if not outright paranoia. Darwin Day events often explicitly attack traditional religion, and the original "honorary president" of Darwin Day was biologist Richard Dawkins, author most recently of The God Delusion. Darwin Day celebrations are symptomatic of how science is routinely misused in America today to attack traditional morality and religion, and how Darwinian biology in particular is influencing virtually every area of our culture—morality, the courts, the welfare system, medicine, and even our churches.

Join author Dr. John West, author of the provocative new book Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science (ISI Books) as he explores the Darwin Day movement and what it reveals about the pervasive influence of Darwinism and scientific materialism on every part on our culture.
What: Darwin Day in America
Who: Dr. John G. West
When: Feb. 12, 12pm - 1:30pm
Where: Media Center at the Family Research Council, Washington, DC