{"id":66,"date":"2009-02-11T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucepress.net\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-02-11T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T17:22:09","slug":"celebrate-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brucepress.net\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Darwin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Thursday, February 12, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.\u00a0 It is the perfect time pay tribute and thanks to the man who has brought so much to humanity.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I know, controversy.\u00a0 You’re probably thinking, “If not Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace would have published his work and it would have been just the same.”\u00a0 Well, I think you’re wrong.\u00a0 Wallace didn’t spend the years that Darwin did thinking about natural selection and its ramifications.\u00a0 He was uniquely positioned to defend his work.\u00a0 It had to be Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Now you’re convinced, but what is an appropriate gift for one long dead.\u00a0 Well, the Center for Inquiry<\/a>\u00a0 has a great idea.\u00a0 Help them create a tribute video with people reading from, “On the Origin of Species”, in recognizable spots all around the world.\u00a0 Details can be found at Darwin Aloud<\/a>, check it out.<\/p>\n

For other activities, check out the Darwin Day<\/a> site.<\/p>\n

” 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.<\/span>”\u00a0 — Charles Darwin<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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