How To Have A Week-Long Darwin Week To Your Children
This article released yesterday on the Humanist Network News. If you are looking to celebrate Charles Darwin’s world-changing theories with your children, you can see how my family has done it by clicking here.
I have some ideas of activities I hope to add this year. I’ll be sure to post them to the blog. If you have some ideas to share, please leave a comment!
Also, HNN’s editor had asked for my thoughts on the Ashley story. If you’re interested in that controversy and would like to see how I apply my ethics, you can read my Letter To The Editor here.
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January 25th, 2007 @ 9:55 am
Excellent article (as usual)! I wish I could do something like this in my home, but alas, I live with a controlling TBM spouse who would never allow it. I’m keeping this around, though, for a time in the future where I may no longer have the controlling TBM spouse.
February 2nd, 2007 @ 7:36 am
Celebrating Darwin’s birthday sounds like fun. I just wanted to point out, though, the irony of eating the species of the various evolutionary phases, as though Man is the “highest level” after all, fit enough to consume everything that has come before. Plus, dividing it into several days parallels the biblical account of creation of one group per day. I’m glad you are focusing on the variety of species, and of the marvel of the diversity of the world; I would just want to add that the “phases” overlapped, and that all the different species that are around today are just as evolutionarily “successful” as we ubercognisant primates are.
My Dad used to tell us classic evolutionary stories around the dinner table–the moths of London, the Lamarckian giraffes, the Galapagos… see if you can fit those in–I still remember them from childhood.
November 24th, 2007 @ 7:32 am
i do not believe evolution.
January 7th, 2008 @ 6:42 pm
I cannot re-emphasize (following Evalution’s comments) how misguided is the “evolutionary progress” series of dinners for teaching about what the theory and data in support of evolution actually tell us. There are no “phases” of evolutionary life in such a progressive series–your first phase, for example, includes shrimp and lobsters, two organisms that belong to the dominant life form (arthropods) on earth. In comparison, your fifth phase, mammals, is a miniscule group. All living organisms occur on the branch tips of the evolutionary tree, and are not ordered or subordinate to one another. Please, don’t replace one set of bad ideas (creationism) with another (progression toward humans).