| To: Jeff Gordon
"Neither do most of the people whom the Creationists pejoratively label as Darwinists."
I bet for most people, that's right. But there has been a large amount of fanfare over this anniversary in the media, and there are a lot of evolutionists*, who do 'think the world' of Darwin, and have put him on sort of a pedestal. For instance, it is true that both democracy and capitalism share a similarity to evolution. They all require a diversity of ideas, mutations, etc. and the best of these for the situation are eventually selected, and the society advances/evolves. I've seen at least one Darwin fan flat out credit Darwin for this; others lean that way. The thing is, both democracy and capitalism predate Darwin. Acceptance of evolution did not lead to the revelation of democracy or capitalism. * evolutionists who know a lot, and are interested a lot, about evolution, not the average Joe who accepts evolution because that is what he was taught in school, but doesn't know all that much about it, nor is he interested in it.
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I entered pre-Med when I could actually apply the evolution I'd learned in High School. Chemistry and Math were my undoing, but my rapt fascination with ALL evolution continues to this day—late in my life.