An atheist group has placed a billboard honoring "Darwin Day" along Route 74 in Dover Township near Blackberry Road.
Southbound travelers can read the poster, which reads "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief." It features an image of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin.
The billboard was paid for by area members of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation and PA Nonbelievers, a group of atheists, agnostics and humanists that meets in York.
An announcementfrom the foundation says a similar billboard was also placed in Dayton, Tenn. The towns were chosen because they were "sites of the 20th century's and 21st century's most significant evolution court battles," according to the foundation's Web site.
The infamous 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" took place in Dayton, and, of course, the Dover Area School District was a defendant in the recent intelligent design case (the 2005 trial actually took place in Harrisburg, Pa.).
The billboards are part of a larger campaign that the Freedom from Religion Foundation began in late 2007. Other billboard messages have included: "Imagine No Religion," "Beware of Dogma" and "Keep Religion OUT of Politics."
Darwin Day (Feb. 12) marks the bicentennial of the birth of Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the release of "Origin of Species," which introduced the concept that natural selection is evolution's driving force.
Speaking of the intelligent design trial, former Daily Record reporter Lauri Lebo will be a guest on Freethought Radio at noon Saturday -- listen online here or it should stream live at 1 p.m. on Air America Radio and most affiliates (I think).
Lebo wrote recently about Evolution Sunday for the Web site Religion Dispatches.
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