Praise Darwin

This is Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. To celebrate, the Freedom From Religion Foundation bought a billboards in Dayton Tennessee that says Praise Darwin, Evolve Beyond Belief. The city is located north of Chattanooga was the site of the infamous 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial”. Darwin's treatise On The Origin of Species was instrumental in the case fought over whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. The Freedom From Religion Foundation says it tried to buy a billboard inside the city limits of Dayton but was turned down.