Pace on Earth

Do The Evolution

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. He is undoubtedly one of the most important scientists in history, not to mention one of the most controversial men in history. This is of course because he borrowed much of his groudbreaking theory from an earlier work by Alfred Russel Wallace. Kidding! Darwin's theory, borrowed as it may have been, was the seminal evolutionary work and, obviously, blew up alot of religious doctrine and started a fight that is still being waged today. This week, however, he got a nice posthumous birthday present when a spokesman for The Vatican declared some level of Church support for Darwin. The article is worth a read.

Today is also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abe Lincoln. That was one hell of a day. Interestingly Google's homepage celebrated Darwin's birthday and not Lincoln's (could have been a .ca thing though). I would guess its because Darwin has cool awards named after him.

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:58 p.m.