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Archive for February, 2006

Week-Long Darwin Day Celebration

Posted: Friday, February 10th, 2006 @ 9:56 pm in Education, Evolution, Family, Food, Holidays, Humanism, Parenting, Science | 5 Comments »

For those of you who have children of elementary age and older, and want to extend your celebration of Darwin Day for the entire week, here is a possible outline with ideas.
Sunday
Elementary age: Read Tree Of Life
Junior High and High School Age: Read parts of Evolution: Eye Witness
(AgnosticMom reader, Ed [...]

The Tree Of Life, Darwin Style

Posted: Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 @ 1:25 pm in Books, Children, Evolution | 5 Comments »

The Biblical Creation Story is so much simpler to explain to a child than the story of Evolution. The Biblical Creation Story is also much easier to find in books! Have you tried to find a children’s book on Evolution? It’s not an easy task.
I have found one book that [...]

Discovery of New Species

Posted: Wednesday, February 8th, 2006 @ 1:24 pm in Evolution | No Comments »

Just in time for Darwin Day, scientists are celebrating the new discovery of species in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea. They call this area the “Garden of Eden,” as it has remained untouched by man (until now, I guess) and is only reachable by helicopter. If this topic interests you, click here [...]

It’s Celebration Time

Posted: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 @ 9:10 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Education, Evolution, Family, Holidays, Humanism, Science, Secular | 7 Comments »

Darwin Day is coming! Have you heard of it? Darwin’s birthday is this coming Sunday, and there is a movement to make it a recognized holiday. Darwin Day (go ahead and get the giggles out of your system now. Israel and I have been giggling the last two evenings) is a holiday just for us, [...]

Social Anxiety

Posted: Sunday, February 5th, 2006 @ 8:14 am in Agnostic, Atheist, Social | 7 Comments »

I think I’m over my old fears of telling people I’m an Agnostic Humanist, rather than a Christian. Of course, I can say that, because my last experiences were successful. But it’s been a while since I’ve been in that circumstance. And I don’t live in the Bible-Belt of America. Arizona isn’t liberal, and it [...]

Our Favorite Fundamentalist

Posted: Friday, February 3rd, 2006 @ 8:34 am in Fundamentalism, News | 2 Comments »

My Pat Robertson Radar has been on. Pat is in the news today, this time applying the repentance concept. Of course, it required a major consequence to compel yesterday’s apology. And those of us who heard about that recent consequence (which I will describe momentarily) were expecting one to come soon.
Here is [...]

Tired

Posted: Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 @ 10:05 pm in Atheist | 5 Comments »

I’ve been tired this evening. A zombie. Aiden keeps waking me up a couple times a night. Last night I heard him sobbing in the hallway. As I walked out of my room to take care of him, his two-year-old voice cried out, “I need a drink of water! I [...]