[goldstategop]

The greatest scientist who ever lived. Darwin shook our place in the scheme of Creation by showing us the variety of life on earth before our appearance on the planet and all life is governed by laws as fixed as the rising and setting of the sun. Life is not immutable - it a dynamic and on-going process in which living things struggle to obtain food, shelter and to reproduce. Now we can see how speciation occurs and why some species are found in some habitats and not in others. Where Darwin changed history was to discover a beautifully simple explanation for the birth and death of species. And since then the world has never been the same and none of us after having reading the Origin can avoid the "universal acid" that burns through our certainty about life around us. Darwin ensured above all we never see Nature in the same light again.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Torie]

Darwin is perceived as having caused Britian to abandon Christianity. That is why he is controversial. Some see his ideas as inimical to faith.

[M-cubed]

Life is not immutable - it a dynamic and on-going process in which living things struggle to obtain food, shelter and to reproduce. Now we can see how speciation occurs and why some species are found in some habitats and not in others. <<

Yup!....and I call it intelligent design.....Really intelligent!!!

[muir_redwoods]

"The greatest scientist who ever lived."

Sorry, I recognize his greatness but Einstein has a place ahead of him in line. I think Newton, Galileo and, if you'll admit a mathematician into the company of scientists, Ramanujan are all ahead of him.