Happy Darwin Day 2016!
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. (Charles Darwin)
The darwinday.org website has lots of resources about the life and work of Charles Darwin (1809 to 1882) and the Richard Dawkins Foundation has recently added teacher materials.
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. (Charles Darwin, Origin of Species)
Meanwhile, let creationism talk itself into oblivion.
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man’s origin can never be known; but 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, The Descent of Man)
February 12, 2016 at 12:28 am |
Dave,
where would we be without him? Personally I take credit for dragging my own ass out of the primordial slime 🙂
John Newell..
February 12, 2016 at 8:17 am |
Hi John. Indeed. 🙂
May 18, 2019 at 5:03 pm |
Darwin was an amazing man and I’m a great fan! We also need to remember our friend Alfred Russel Wallace as a co-father of evolution.
May 18, 2019 at 5:08 pm |
Very true Paul. Both of them awesome and worthy of being remembered as pioneers.