Each year, on the Sunday closest to Darwin’s birthday, pastors from around the country celebrate Evolution Sunday by speaking from the pulpit about Darwin’s contribution to our understanding of the world.
Michael Zimmerman, dean of Butler University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Indiana and an evolutionary biologist by training, is the creator of Evolution Sunday and the founder of The Clergy Letter Project. The letter in question, now signed by more than 13,000 religious leaders, states that those signing it accept evolution as a foundational scientific truth
