Comments on: How To Have A Week-Long Darwin Week To Your Children http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/ Raising a Healthy Family Without Religion. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: rafael http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-126448 rafael Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:42:44 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-126448 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). 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).

]]> By: sandy courtyard http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-93014 sandy courtyard Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:32:11 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-93014 i do not believe evolution. i do not believe evolution.

]]> By: Evalution http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-8545 Evalution Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:36:51 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-8545 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. 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.

]]> By: mattman http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-7602 mattman Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:55:17 +0000 http://www.agnosticmom.com/2007/01/25/how-to-have-a-week-long-darwin-week-to-your-children/#comment-7602 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. ;) 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. ;)

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