It’s actually a far more fitting holiday (for lack of a better word) for the world at large than any other birthday/holiday/hallmark-excuse-to-gouge-the-consumer.
Without Darwin’s evolutionary theory, we would lack a great many things in this world: biology (this is almost ALWAYS met with disbelief when you tell a creationist) – evolution is the backbone of biology, and by extension, modern medicine. Oh and agriculture and animal husbandry, not to mention the movement of ethics away from supernatural tripe to actual morality founded on reality. It is the pebble that began the avalanche, the flapping butterfly wing that began the tsunami, the asteroid that struck the world and began slowly extinguishing the anachronistic nonsenses of the past.
I could go at length on this topic – but I lack the vocabulary and the space to pontificate on this subject. Sufficient to say: Happy Darwin Day!
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Till the next post, then.
I will write in blog about it and include a song I sing about Darwin.
That night I will sink into my couch to watch ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin’ by Richard Dawkins. Some whiskey and pizza or chinese will complete the evening’s revelry.
Happy Darwin Day, indeed. To celebrate let’s have an animal cracker. That being said…
I agree that evolution is the backbone of biology. It is true that it was the publication of Darwin’s writings that got the ball rolling, but I do think that evolution would have prevailed even without Darwin. For this I would like to point to a man who, although known for his contributions, remains to this day in the shadow of dear Darwin, i.e.Alfred Russel Wallace. This man developed his own theory of evolution at unfortunately about the same time as Darwin published his. If we are to celebrate Darwin Darwin, let us at least also celebrate all who have contributed to the theory of evolution and all the great things that came of it.