Happy Darwin Day, everyone! Today is the 202nd birthday of one of the greatest men in science, Mr. Charles Darwin (also, oddly enough, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln). It is hard to overstate the importance of Darwin in all of modern life; his theory changed the world, changed not just biology but endless other branches of science and led to the creation of countless other branches. Few others can claim to have changed the way we view the world like Darwin can, and for a person so modest and retiring as he this is especially something. Yet while the scientific community has overwhelmingly accepted Darwin and his great theory, outside of the bastions of scientific thought the majority in this country reject evolution and its implications, worried that somehow it is a threat to their religion, their morals or cherished notions of what humans are. These are unfounded fears. Evolution is no threat to God or religion and makes no claims about morals except perhaps to wonder at what point...
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