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Discovery Institute Announces 2nd Annual Academic Freedom Day on Charles Darwin’s Birthday

Fresh on the heels of Darwin Year, Discovery Institute announces the launch of the 2nd Annual Academic Freedom Day in honor of Charles Darwin’s birthday, February 12, 2010.
Yes, it’s that time of year again, and Discovery Institute is gearing up for the celebration by supporting what Darwin supported: academic freedom.
Academic Freedom Day couldn’t come at a better time, as academic freedom is threatened around the country. We have seen Darwinists launch cyber attacks on a pro-ID conference website in Colorado and engage in an illegal coverup in the censorship of a pro-ID film in California.
It’s time like these when Darwin’s own words should instruct everyone on how to have an open and honest debate over evolution and intelligent design.


In On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote, “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” This quote is the cornerstone of the Institute’s Academic Freedom Day efforts.
The Institute’s Center for Science and Culture is sponsoring Academic Freedom Day 2010, assisting student groups, clubs, and individual students to organize Academic Freedom Day Events centered on Darwin’s birthday and his fair-minded approach to freedom of inquiry.
If you’re looking to express your support for free speech and the right to debate the evidence for and against evolution, check out academicfreedomday.com, a website where you can get equipped to support academic freedom and fight censorship in tangible ways, like signing the academic freedom petition on evolution, wearing Academic Freedom Day t-shirts, screening movies like Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and Icons of Evolution, and starting Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness (IDEA) clubs.
For more information on Academic Freedom Day, visit www.academicfreedomday.com.