Darwin Day at UTM - February 12

February 4, 2009 on 1:51 pm | In Religion, Events, Science and Technology | No Comments

We are pleased to announce another lecture to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday!

Thursday, February 12, 2009
5:30 pm
SE 2072 - South Building, UTM
FREE ADMISSION

Darwin Day 2009

We are celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth in 1809, a man who is on any account one of greatest scientists since Newton. The aim of the talk will be to celebrate Darwin by describing his wide-ranging mind, his extraordinarily observant and meticulous work in geology, botany, and biology. Darwin is deservedly renown for his epochal achievement in developing the revolutionary notion of the origin and evolution of species through natural selection. Less well known, however, is his equally innovative and revolutionary, if largely unacknowledged, view of the intimate relations between the ‘social instinct’ and the ‘moral sense’ both in humans and in animals, as his words above indicate. Dr. Di Norcia will communicate the grandeur and beauty of Darwin’s view of social ethics as well as of evolution. In both the matters of natural history and social ethics, he suggests that Charles Darwin’s scientific work to this day represents a ground-breaking intellectual and scientific achievement. And, unfortunately, still largely ignored or ignorantly opposed.

Darwin Day Lecture - February 10, 2008

February 2, 2009 on 3:55 pm | In Events, Science and Technology | No Comments

In celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, the Halton-Peel Humanist Community with the Mississauga Freethought Association, will be hosting a talk by Dr. Jason R Wiles on the state of evolution education in Canada and the United States.

Darwin Day

The event will be held at the Central Library in Mississauga, ON on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, starting at 6:30 pm.

This event is open to anyone and everyone - so bring your friends, family, school mates and co-workers, and come celebrate the birth of one of the greatest minds in science!

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