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121 Penn Statim 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/statim121 and id is 1 raw text is: 121 PENN STATE LAW REVIEW PENN STATIM 1 When I Left the Darwin Day Committee Bruce Ledewitz* I did not quit the Darwin Day Committee at Duquesne University over its plans for Darwin Day 2008. I did not really quit at all. Nor was I actually asked to resign. I just sort of drifted away by mutual consent. The Committee was celebrating a Pennsylvania victory over reactionary creationism. I saw that victory too-I really did. But, at the same time, I was mourning a tragedy of confused parents trying to maintain a meaningful world for their children. The Committee could not see the harm they were doing. They thought they were doing the right thing. It was a long time ago now. But, today's supporters of Donald Trump are some of those same parents, and the Darwin Day Committees of the world still don't understand them. The Darwin Day Committee is an informal group of professors, mostly from the science departments, mainly biology, who meet every year to decide how Duquesne will celebrate International Darwin Day, around the date of Charles Darwin's birthday, February 12. Usually, the programs are scientific and technical. In 2016, for example, the title of the program was African Evolutionary Genomics, A Modern Look at Human Genetic Diversity. But for Darwin Day 2008, the Committee decided to go in a different, more policy-oriented direction. The Committee decided to highlight the public controversy concerning the teaching of * Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law. A portion of this article appeared previously in a different form in The Five Days in June When Values Died in American Law, 49 AKRON L. REV. 115 (2016).

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