An answer to AiG: evolutionary botany!

[razzleccentric]

Dear Cincinnati-area and northern Kentucky friends of NCSE,

I thought that you might like to know that Maggie Whitson, Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences at Northern Kentucky Universtiy, will be speaking on "The evolution of plants" at 7:00 p.m. on June 16 at Sunrock Farm, 103 Gibson Lane in Wilder, Kentucky. Her talk is the last in a series of seven lectures on evolution held there in May and June, but I didn't find out about the lecture series myself until last week! There is a $5.00 charge.

Sunrock Farm is also featuring daytime evolution tours of the farm for families, organized around inheritance, natural selection, and deep time. And on June 16, it plans to open its Evolution Garden -- one of only four of its kind in the world -- containing ferns, mosses, conifers, and flowering plants, all arranged so as to tell the story of the evolution of land plants. A special feature is a Wollemi pine, thought to be extinct until only recently.

For further details, see the Cincinnati Post's article about evolution education activities at Sunrock Farm:
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/NEWS02/705040352

and visit Sunrock Farm's website:
http://www.sunrockfarm.org/

Comments

[starrchilde.livejournal.com]

That sounds really neat!

[beldar.livejournal.com]

According to the AiG guy's logic, since I've already studied the Bible, I don't need to study it anymore. Why hold Sunday School at all? It's common knowledge, isn't it? And he won't mind if other "truths" get taught, since we don't know so much about them.