Happy Darwin Day!

Let us all celebrate the brilliant 19th Century naturalist who revolutionised the biological sciences and who would ultimately free mankind from the bonds of superstition, fear, and irrationality (ok, perhaps that has not fully happened yet, but hopefully, one day that will come true). He has provided one of the most important theories (a statement that is based on evidence gathered from a large number of observations) in all fields of biology, a theory that has become ever more important to our understanding in recent years; the theory of evolution. He was kind, quiet man who held a passion for the study of living things and with his book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life he changed the world.





Happy 198th birthday, Charles Darwin!

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Also, I have joined Richard Dawkins's Myspace campaign. For those not in the know, Dawkins is Darwin's modern-day bulldog, he has published a great deal on the evolutionary theory and has fought for secular humanism and against the superstition and irrationality of religion.
So, happy Darwin Day to all, and let us hope that one day the ignorance that inspires such beliefs as creationism shall no longer exist to provide a hindrance to humankind's potential.