Mark your calendars now for February 12, 2012, from 2:30 to 4:30 pm (doors open at 2 pm) for the Sacramento Darwin Day Event that will celebrate Darwin's 203rd birthday. It will be held at the John Smith Hall in the La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road, Carmichael, CA.
TOPIC: "Evolution and Modern Religious Thought"
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Peter M. J. Hess is the Director for Religious Community Outreach at the National Center for Science Education. An engaging speaker, Dr. Hess offers stimulating and thought-provoking lectures and workshops where he addresses religious, philosophical, and historical aspects of the controversy surrounding evolution and creation. He teaches liberal studies at Saint Mary's College in Moraga. He is the author, with Paul L. Allen, of Catholicism and Science.
About Us
- Darwin Day Sponsors
- Sacramento, California
- The Darwin Day Sponsors include a group of various community, educational, and science entities such as, but not limited to, the Anthropology and Biology Departments of Sacramento State University,the Astronomy and Physics Departments of Sacramento City College, the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area, Atheists and other Freethinkers, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, ACLU - Sacramento County Chapter, the Sacramento Organization for Rational Thinking, and Social Responsibility Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento.
Darwin Day is an International Day of Celebrating Science
Video of Darwin Day 2011 Sacramento