Happy Darwin Day!

[Caligulette]

Next Year in the Galapagos! (I expect only Shottlebop will laugh at that, but he's worth it.)

[Dingfod]

Darwin, isn't he the guy in the comic strip married to Blondie?

[godfry n. glad]

Hey! What am I? Chopped finch liver?

[Crumb]

:darwin: Happy Darwin Day, :ff:ers! :darwin:

[Caligulette]

Hey! What am I? Chopped finch liver?
Apologies. Mmmmm...Liver.(Or, rather, blick - liver!)

[Watser?]

Isn't Darwin a city in Australia? Do they have a party there?

[The Lone Ranger]

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
-- The Origin of Species


Trivia: The word "evolution" does not occur anywhere in the first edition of The Origin of Species. Darwin used the much more precise and accurate term "descent with modification." I wish we still used that term, since it's both much more descriptive and lacks the unfortunately teleological implications of "evolution." But I suppose the phrase doesn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way that "evolution" does.


Cheers,

Michael

[Ymir's blood]

Someone was kind enough to leave the latest two issues of National Geographic in the office, both of which had features on Darwin. There was also an article on CNN, which of course had a bit from an ID fuckwit in it.

Also, it's Lincoln's birthday. They were born in the same year and on the same day.

[BDS]

I don't like "Darwinism". I'm not talking about the theory of Natural Selection, but the term, which, I think, is bandied about be anti-evolutionists to suggest that: 1) Evolution is an "ism", like "Creationism" or "Marxism", and 2) that the "cult" of this "ism" is based on a prophet.

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin, though.

[Dingfod]

Glory, glory, evolution.
Freed the slaves and sailed the Beagle
Charles and Abe were both great men
Born the very same day.

[godfry n. glad]

Trivia: The word "evolution" does not occur anywhere in the first edition of The Origin of Species. Darwin used the much more precise and accurate term "descent with modification." I wish we still used that term, since it's both much more descriptive and lacks the unfortunately teleological implications of "evolution." But I suppose the phrase doesn't roll off the tongue in quite the same way that "evolution" does.

Yeah. It doesn't. It doesn't sound 'evil', either. Indeed, descent sounds almost decent.

[Deadlokd]

Happy Birthday Charles. Nice work. :thumbsup:

[The Lone Ranger]

I don't like "Darwinism". I'm not talking about the theory of Natural Selection, but the term, which, I think, is bandied about be anti-evolutionists to suggest that: 1) Evolution is an "ism", like "Creationism" or "Marxism", and 2) that the "cult" of this "ism" is based on a prophet.

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin, though.

I don't like the term either. Virtually the only people who ever use it are Creationists, and they typically use it for exactly the reasons you stated.

For that matter, I don't much care for "Darwin Fish" either. Even though they're generally used to express opposition to narrow-minded anti-evolution sentiments, I think they send a bad message. That's because they quite clearly suggest that acceptance of biological evolution is equivalent to (and maybe even a form of) religious belief. That's why I do not -- and will not -- have a "Darwin Fish" bumper sticker on my car.

Cheers,

Michael

[godfry n. glad]

Hey! What am I? Chopped finch liver?
Apologies. Mmmmm...Liver.(Or, rather, blick - liver!)

Damn. What am I going to have to do to get some respect around here?

Do I need to wear my "Goy Pride" baseball cap around here more often?

[Nullifidian]

:darwin: :birthday: :darwin:

There aren't any good Darwin Day lectures in my area (apparently the Darwin Day lecture was on the 7th :darn:), so I'm just streaming some documentaries online instead.

What Darwin Never Knew

[Kyuss Apollo]

Nor did Darwin in his original version of On the Origin of Species make any reference to "survival of the fittest." If the phrase refers to anything biological, it means "survival of the fit enough," not unrestrained competition.

Suck on that, social Darwinists.

And Happy Darwin Day, :fflorin:ers!

[ITSOZAZ]

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[thedoc]

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