Colleges celebrate Darwin in yearlong slate of events
by Kevin Mayhood
The Columbus Dispatch, October 15, 2008
p. B3
Throughout Ohio, people can sup on primordial soup and listen to the strings of evolution as part of a celebration of Charles Darwin, a former divinity student who shook the world when he published his theory of evolution.
Darwin’s 200th birthday would be Feb. 12, and his On the Origin of Species will turn 150 on Nov. 24, 2009.
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Cincinnati will host the North American Paleontological Convention in June, partly so that paleontologists can tour the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky.