{"id":3238,"date":"2008-12-10T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/darwin-worship-resource-materials\/"},"modified":"2008-12-10T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:42:00","slug":"darwin-worship-resource-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/darwin-worship-resource-materials.html","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Worship Resource Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>No, this isn\u2019t about resources for the worship <em>of<\/em> Darwin. Neither the scientific community nor its opponents would have any interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/evolutionists_flock_to_darwin\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">doing <em>that<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there are some <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/clergyproject\/pdf\/darwin%20worship%20pack.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">worship resources<\/a><\/em> related to Darwin that have been made available by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/clergyletterproject\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Clergy Letter Project<\/a>, to help congregations prepare to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butler.edu\/clergyproject\/rel_evolution_weekend_2009.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Evolution Weekend 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2009 marks both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwin2009.cam.ac.uk\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">150th anniversary of the publication of <em>On The Origin of Species<\/em><\/a> as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinday.org\/englishL\/home\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">200th anniversary of Darwin\u2019s birth<\/a>. If your congregation has never participated before, this would be a great year to start! Lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/darwin-online.org.uk\/2009.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">commemorative events<\/a> are being planned.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4769600563021669802?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this isn\u2019t about resources for the worship of Darwin. Neither the scientific community nor its opponents would have any interest in doing that. But there are some worship resources related to Darwin that have been made available by the Clergy Letter Project, to help congregations prepare to participate in Evolution Weekend 2009. 2009 marks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Darwin Worship Resource Materials<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, this isn&#039;t about resources for the worship of Darwin. 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