<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Humanist Association of Connecticut</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Special Monthly Meeting - in honor of</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DARWIN DAY</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote>USNH 700 Hartford Turnpike, Hamden<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 175, 205, 0.258824); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Sunday, February 17, at 3:30pm</font></a></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Please note this is not the usual <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 175, 205, 0.258824);">Monday evening</a> time)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="cid:C80ADDD9-BCC6-405E-AD0E-BED4B6550886" alt="image1.png" id="gmail-m_-66127305326062505597683D463-306B-4A82-BD65-ADE1D6F29354" _mf_state="2" action="null" title="null"></span></font></div><h2 class="gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--sectionTitle gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--bold gmail-m_-6612730532606250559padding--bottom" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 500;"><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></h2><h2 class="gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--sectionTitle gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--bold gmail-m_-6612730532606250559padding--bottom" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 500;"><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Dr. Abby Hafer will present "Darwin’s Apostles”.</span></font></h2><h2 class="gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--sectionTitle gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--bold gmail-m_-6612730532606250559padding--bottom" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 500;"></h2></div></div></blockquote><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h2 class="gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--sectionTitle gmail-m_-6612730532606250559text--bold gmail-m_-6612730532606250559padding--bottom" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.45; font-weight: 500;"><font color="#000000" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Charles Darwin wrote earth-shattering books but preferred to have others defend them. Fortunately, scientists like Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker, Asa Gray, John Draper, and evolution’s co-discoverer Alfred Russel Wallace were all willing to go to bat on evolution’s behalf. They were colorful, distinguished, and tenacious. Come find out more about them!</span></font></h2><div class="gmail-m_-6612730532606250559event-description gmail-m_-6612730532606250559runningText" style="line-height: 1.8; overflow: hidden;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 40em; word-break: break-word;"><font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Hafer is the author of "The Not-So-Intelligent Designer—Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not." She has a doctorate in zoology from Oxford University and teaches human anatomy and physiology at Curry College. </span></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote>Please join us. Refreshments will be shared.</div></blockquote></div></body></html>