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Thursday, February 12, 2009

HAPPY DARWIN DAY

To many people this is Lincoln’s Birthday, the bicentennial of the birth of the man that many think our greatest president.

 

By coincidence or whatever, today is also the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin.

 

Lincoln became president in 1861.  Darwin published Origin of the Species in 1859.  Both men became larger than life figures of the last half of the nineteenth century and continue to be so [albeit for much different reasons] today.  Advocates for racial justice have co-opted Lincoln;  atheists Darwin.

 

Lincoln was an American.  Darwin a subject of the Crown we had to get out of our lives to become free people.

 

Our mayor has chosen to proclaim today Darwin Day.
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March 2, 2009 at 5:08 AM

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