Celebrate Darwin!

This Thursday, February 12, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.  It is the perfect time pay tribute and thanks to the man who has brought so much to humanity.

Yeah, yeah, I know, controversy.  You’re probably thinking, “If not Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace would have published his work and it would have been just the same.”  Well, I think you’re wrong.  Wallace didn’t spend the years that Darwin did thinking about natural selection and its ramifications.  He was uniquely positioned to defend his work.  It had to be Charles Darwin.

If you aren’t convinced based solely on his wide variety of experiences and just the length of time he spent cogitating on the problem, you might be convinced by the fact that Wallace was a ‘spiritualist’ and a known supporter of nutters!

Now you’re convinced, but what is an appropriate gift for one long dead.  Well, the Center for Inquiry  has a great idea.  Help them create a tribute video with people reading from, “On the Origin of Species”, in recognizable spots all around the world.  Details can be found at Darwin Aloud, check it out.

For other activities, check out the Darwin Day site.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”  — Charles Darwin

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