Posts Tagged ‘charles darwin’
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
The new Charles Darwin bio-pic “Creation” (starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly) opens in Atlanta on February 19th. The guys from the American Freethought Podcast (John C. Snider and David Driscoll) would like to invite you to join us on Saturday, February 20th, to see this film, with dinner and drinks at Royal Orchid Thai Cuisine (literally right next door to the theatre) immediately following. Dutch treat.
We have a Facebook event set up for this outing.
Exact showtimes are not yet available, but we’re shooting for a 4PM-ish screening. Details to follow.
See you there!
Tags: charles darwin, creation, jennifer connelly, paul bettany
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
As I reported a few days ago, evangelist and armchair evolution critic Ray Comfort has engaged in debate with Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education. Their exchange has been posted at US News and World Report. Here’s the second and final round. First, Ray Comfort trots out more of the same old nonsensical blither-blather, then Scott finishes him off in her closing statement.
Look for Comfort’s minions soon at a major university near you–they’re giving away copies of Darwin’s Origin of Species with a 50-page “introduction” by Comfort. Aren’t you lucky?
Tags: charles darwin, eugenie scott, national center for science education, ncse, origin of species, ray comfort
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Tags: charles darwin, creation, jennifer connelly, newmarket, origin of species, passion of the christ, paul bettany
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
We stumbled across this yesterday, quite by accident, while doing our grocery shopping. It’s Evolution Wine, a blend of nine white varietals produced by Sokol Blosser Winery in Oregon. Too bad it wasn’t around for Darwin Day back in February, but this vintage wasn’t released until September 9th. Still, it’s the perfect choice for the upcoming 150th anniversary of the release of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species on November 24th. And you know we’ll be celebrating that!
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Tags: charles darwin, evolution wine, friday the 13th, origin of species, sokol blosser
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the new film Creation (starring husband-and-wife actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly as Charles Darwin and wife Emma Darwin) has failed to find a distributor in the United States. The film deals with Darwin’s life after his ’round-the-world voyage on the Beagle and his personal struggle to come to terms with the theory of evolution by natural selection. The film has been screened in various places, including the Toronto Film Festival, and has received generally positive reviews. Dr. Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education calls it “a thoughtful, well-made film that will change many views of Darwin held by the public—for the good.”
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Tags: charles darwin, creation, eugenie c. scott, evolution, jennifer connelly, paul bettany, pz myers
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
by John C. Snider © 2009
If you buy the latest Creationist explanation, Charles Darwin was a fantasy-prone naif who “fabricated stories” as a boy, fell for a bunch of geological uniformitarianist claptrap, got mad at God for the deaths of three of his ten children, and kluged together the Theory of Evolution by cherrypicking the data he collected on his famous round-the-world voyage. Plus he was a racist precisely because he believed that, while all human beings are derived from a common ancestor, some were more evolved than others.
As you probably already know, 2009 marks both Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his magnum opus The Origin of Species. Lovers of science have been celebrating all year, but Creationists–still smarting from recent legal setbacks involving teaching Intelligent Design in public schools, and increasingly desperate to sound “sciencey” when discussing their discredited theories–are determined not to be outdone in the Year of Darwin.
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Tags: charles darwin, cmi, creation ministries international, creationism, evolution, intelligent design, voyage that shook the world
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Wow, what a turn-out for last night’s Darwin Day 2009! I counted at least 40 (and perhaps as many as 60) people at Decatur’s Thinking Man Tavern. Getting a proper head-count was a little tough, since we could only pull so many tables together, after which people got scattered around to different parts of the room. (It’s hard to tell Darwinists from anti-Darwinists unless the latter are actively thumping their Bibles!)
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Tags: charles darwin, darwin, darwin day, thinking man tavern
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Podcast #82 – Creation
Friday, February 26th, 2010Thanks to the many fellow science fans who joined us for the Creation screening at Atlanta’s Landmark Midtown Art Cinema. And thanks to Royal Orchid Thai Cuisine for accommodating our unexpected horde.
Tags: annie's box, charles darwin, creation, david mcallister, evolution, jason bourque, jennifer connelly, paul bettany
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