Well, Feb 12th is almost over. Here's a tidbit for you:
"Can you believe it? Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day, February 12, 1809, but their lives had completely different effects.
Lincoln is best known for freeing the slaves by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, affirming that all men are equal.
Darwin is best known for the theory of evolution, arguing that all men are not equal because some are more evolved.
Darwin's theory has been used by atheists to explain away belief in God, whereas the last act of Congress signed by Lincoln, before he was shot, was to place the phrase "In God We Trust" on all our national coin."
And, on NPR today, Scott Simon thoughtfully discussed with two historians the following: whether Lincoln was, really, Bisexual at the least, or not.
It really is 1984...and I'm going to go to sleep and wake up in 2005, and say over and over, it is NOT groundhog day...
You're not taking a long enough view of things. I believe it was Richard Feynman who said that in 60,000 years, the only thing the 19th century will be remembered for are Maxwell's electromagnetism equations. Without incurring much additional risk of being mistaken, he could have added Darwin's theory of evolution by random variation and natural selection to his very short list.
Thanks for the insight!
This is *NOT* what the theory of evolution says, nor is it something that Darwin said personally. For that matter, the whole notion of "more evolved" is meaningless in evolution (although common in misguided popularizations of it) -- "evolved" is not something you can measure as if with a yardstick and declare one species "more evolved" than the other.
And "all men" are the result of an *equal* number of years of evolution since the day of their last common ancestor, so the very notion of "more evolved" peoples falls on its face right there.
So stop telling falsehoods about Darwin and evolution, please.