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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:48 AM
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Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 07:50 AM by brooklynite
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

Today, Thursday 12 February, we celebrate 200 years since Charles Darwin, one of the world's most creative and influential thinkers, was born.

Darwin200 is a national programme of events honouring his scientific ideas and their impact. The celebrations have already begun and will continue until 24 November 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of his famous book, On the Origin of Species.

http://www.discoverdarwin.co.uk/happy-birthday/
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:56 AM
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1. Wonder if they'll still be maligning him after 300
The godbotherers somehow won't let the guy rest. Never understood why that one gets them all up in arms but things like plate tectonics, which similarly posit a changing creation due to natural mechanisms, don't seem to get their uptight intellectually dishonest panties in a bunch.
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brooklynite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:08 AM
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4. Won't the Rapture have happened by then?
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:19 AM
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5. I think the reason they hate evolution more than plate tectonics is is pretty simple:
Humans = monkeys.
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:51 AM
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7. Yes there is that angle but
At least if we take them at their word they get upset by the idea that God didn't create everything as it is. While the "monkey" thing gets a lot of grief, they spend as much effort trying to find holes in non-human evolution too, so it can't just be about people being special.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:47 PM
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16. They don't spend any effort in trying find holes in evolution.
They just keep recycling the same old ones.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:57 AM
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2. Happy Birthday!
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moobu2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 08:00 AM
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3. Happy 200th birthday
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:30 AM
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6. Happy B-Day!
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 09:54 AM
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8. Happy Darwin Day!!!
Should be an international holiday. And there should also be an Einstein day.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 10:22 AM
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9. Opposable thumbs up for Charles Darwin!
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:44 PM
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11. Bravo! n/t
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:47 PM
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15. And binocular vision to read the thread!
:woohoo:
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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:41 PM
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10. Charles is getting no respect here people.
Lincoln gets props but Darwin is falling off the page.

Where are you DU?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:45 PM
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12. We're here! There's just so many "OctoMom" threads to wade through! n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:46 PM
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13. Kick and a rec for science! k+r, n/t
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:46 PM
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14. "I'd rather be a monkey, then be a man who's afraid of the truth."
- paraphrasing T. H. Huxley, Darwin's bulldog, in a debate on evolution.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:54 PM
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17. Cheers!
:toast:

--imm
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:55 PM
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18. Rock on, Charlie!



:thumbsup: :hi: :thumbsup:


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D23MIURG23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:55 PM
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19. K&R
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-13-09 04:16 PM
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20. his book is amazingly readable. I love mine.
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