Wow, I didn’t know they had the same birthday. But at least this time I know who they are! The Google logo is decorated with finches today (Darwin studied finches on the Galapagos islands).
Hm… since no one’s mentioned him yet, three cheers for Lincoln! Who else could go from a candlelit log cabin to the White House? If only he hadn’t been so fond of comedic plays. He could’ve survived to serve another term.
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!
Weird how both of them have the same birthday and both of them were very influential. Maybe it’s a lucky date. Anybody know someone whose birthday is also today?
A year ago, I believe, there was a Newsweek magazine titled “Darwin vs. Lincoln: Who Matters More?” I t was one of the least logical premises for a magazine ever; how do you compare a politician with a scientist?
Have a very happy 200th anniversery since the inherited genes of your ancestors and various independent mutations combined to create you, Master Darwin!
How exciting it is to be here on the 200th anniversary of the birth of two very important and amazing people! *Has party* *With only the fittest, free pies*
*Hopes that made sense*
With that, I must leave you kind Ladies and Gentlemen for the evening. See you tomorrow, perhaps?
Happy birthday, Mr. Darwin and Mr. Lincoln!
Has anyone else seen the exhibit on Lincoln at the American History museum? It’s quite good.
There was an article in the paper today that said something like 40% of America doesn’t believe in evolution. That’s crazy! Unfortunately, I can see the effects in our area…..where we get catalogs for homeschooling science and they say “WARNING: contains information in support of evolution!” *groan* like my biology book– some families around here wouldn’t let their kids read it because it would be too “dangerous”. And the creationists museum somewhere in Texas (I think)? there’s a display about the “effects” of teaching evolution that shows a little boy looking at porn and a pregnant teenager.
Umm, scuse me but I’m failing to grasp how that is the result of teaching scientifically sound theories. Oh well, enough ranting.
(15) Adeia: Most scientists I know wouldn’t say they believe in evolution; they just think that the theory (descent with modification, driven by natural selection, resulting in changes to populations of plants and animals) is better than other ideas on the market at explaining a whole bunch of observations that scientists have made.
When non-scientists talk about evolution, they often jumble up a lot of different ideas, so it’s good to be careful about exactly what you are and aren’t talking about. I’m busy at work right now and can’t go into details, so I’ll just jot down a quick list to help the discussion:
– The idea that Earth, and life, are billions of years old.
– The idea that rocks can give information about Earth’s history, and that fossils in rocks can give information about the history of life on Earth.
– The observations that many plants and animals preserved as fossils are no longer around and that, judging by fossils, many animals we see today did not exist much earlier in Earth’s history.
– The observations that different sorts of plants and animals live on different continents and islands and that there are patterns in where similar ones are found.
– The observation that domesticated animals and plants (such as dogs and corn) have changed over time as a result of artificial selection by breeders.
– The idea that natural features of the environment can cause similar (though usually slower) changes by making plants and animals with certain traits more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass those traits on to their offspring (natural selection).
– The idea that changes due to natural selection can explain how species come into being, how the mix of species on Earth has changed over time, and how the species now on Earth came to live where they do.
– The idea that that explanation applies to people.
I think it’s ridiculous that some people hate the theory of evolution for “religious reasons”. Religion and science are not opposed. If a religion is true, science will back up its claims. The Church has even come out and said that science is marvelous and necessary, even going so far as to say that life on other planets is possible and does not go against any Catholic beliefs. I don’t see why some people think God and science are opposed. I think that yes, evolution did indeed happen. I have no doubt about that. But that doesn’t mean God didn’t design it and put the parts into place. He’s God, after all. He can do that.
Biogenesis/abiogenesis? That’s true. Let’s make it clear: neither the origin of life nor the physics of the beginning of the universe has anything to do with evolution by natural selection at all.
17~ I’m not Catholic but I totally agree that science and religion can work together perfectly well and back each other up. How can they be opposed? Of course, I’d a Christian Scientist….but that’s not really in reference to evolution or physics or whatever.
Dude. Thomas Aquinas. Need I say more?
Life would be soooo much easier if science and religion stopped shouting at one another and started doing productive things. I know both do productive things often, but…
*holds head in hands* Why do people care so much about who Jesus was? Why don’t they just concentrate on what he said?
i am jwish and i totally believe that science and religion can mix. people who only think about religion are denying the facts and people who only think about science are denying what people have believed for thousands of years. LIVE WITH OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS, PEOPLE! sorry.
Wow, I didn’t know they had the same birthday. But at least this time I know who they are! The Google logo is decorated with finches today (Darwin studied finches on the Galapagos islands).
Yay, happy birthday to the sweetness top hat and whiskers, and to Darwin, who is just super-cool with his scientific discoveries and stuff.
1 – And not just any finches, but the four evolved species of finches that Darwin… figured out.
Hm… since no one’s mentioned him yet, three cheers for Lincoln! Who else could go from a candlelit log cabin to the White House? If only he hadn’t been so fond of comedic plays. He could’ve survived to serve another term.
Happy birthday to Lincoln and Darwin!
3 – But think of how different history would have been.
WOW. That would have been weird and impossibly different but amazing.
AmI going mad or did I just read a part in Botany of Desire or somewhere online mentioning the two and their birthdates and ect?
*holds head*
I also noticed the Google logo. I think it was a nice touch.
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!
Weird how both of them have the same birthday and both of them were very influential. Maybe it’s a lucky date. Anybody know someone whose birthday is also today?
7- No. But Ernest Shackleton and Galileo were born on the 15th, so maybe it’s a lucky WEEK.
Happy Birthday, guys! Equality and science pies all around!
I know somebody but he’s not famous…:(
A year ago, I believe, there was a Newsweek magazine titled “Darwin vs. Lincoln: Who Matters More?” I t was one of the least logical premises for a magazine ever; how do you compare a politician with a scientist?
Have a very happy 200th anniversery since the inherited genes of your ancestors and various independent mutations combined to create you, Master Darwin!
Happy Birthday, everybody! I have not much to say.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARWIN AND LINCOLN!!!
How exciting it is to be here on the 200th anniversary of the birth of two very important and amazing people! *Has party* *With only the fittest, free pies*
*Hopes that made sense*
With that, I must leave you kind Ladies and Gentlemen for the evening. See you tomorrow, perhaps?
Red-tailed HAWK
Happy birthday, Mr. Darwin and Mr. Lincoln!
Has anyone else seen the exhibit on Lincoln at the American History museum? It’s quite good.
There was an article in the paper today that said something like 40% of America doesn’t believe in evolution. That’s crazy! Unfortunately, I can see the effects in our area…..where we get catalogs for homeschooling science and they say “WARNING: contains information in support of evolution!” *groan* like my biology book– some families around here wouldn’t let their kids read it because it would be too “dangerous”. And the creationists museum somewhere in Texas (I think)? there’s a display about the “effects” of teaching evolution that shows a little boy looking at porn and a pregnant teenager.
Umm, scuse me but I’m failing to grasp how that is the result of teaching scientifically sound theories. Oh well, enough ranting.
13~ Hello!
this may end up needing it’s own thread with the discussion it creates but do you or don’t you believe in evolution? why?
(15) Adeia: Most scientists I know wouldn’t say they believe in evolution; they just think that the theory (descent with modification, driven by natural selection, resulting in changes to populations of plants and animals) is better than other ideas on the market at explaining a whole bunch of observations that scientists have made.
When non-scientists talk about evolution, they often jumble up a lot of different ideas, so it’s good to be careful about exactly what you are and aren’t talking about. I’m busy at work right now and can’t go into details, so I’ll just jot down a quick list to help the discussion:
– The idea that Earth, and life, are billions of years old.
– The idea that rocks can give information about Earth’s history, and that fossils in rocks can give information about the history of life on Earth.
– The observations that many plants and animals preserved as fossils are no longer around and that, judging by fossils, many animals we see today did not exist much earlier in Earth’s history.
– The observations that different sorts of plants and animals live on different continents and islands and that there are patterns in where similar ones are found.
– The observation that domesticated animals and plants (such as dogs and corn) have changed over time as a result of artificial selection by breeders.
– The idea that natural features of the environment can cause similar (though usually slower) changes by making plants and animals with certain traits more likely to survive, reproduce, and pass those traits on to their offspring (natural selection).
– The idea that changes due to natural selection can explain how species come into being, how the mix of species on Earth has changed over time, and how the species now on Earth came to live where they do.
– The idea that that explanation applies to people.
I think it’s ridiculous that some people hate the theory of evolution for “religious reasons”. Religion and science are not opposed. If a religion is true, science will back up its claims. The Church has even come out and said that science is marvelous and necessary, even going so far as to say that life on other planets is possible and does not go against any Catholic beliefs. I don’t see why some people think God and science are opposed. I think that yes, evolution did indeed happen. I have no doubt about that. But that doesn’t mean God didn’t design it and put the parts into place. He’s God, after all. He can do that.
But still, let’s hear it for Lincoln!
16- And they also add (that long word that’s talking about the origin of life) and the big bang to “evolution”.
Biogenesis/abiogenesis? That’s true. Let’s make it clear: neither the origin of life nor the physics of the beginning of the universe has anything to do with evolution by natural selection at all.
14- They should all watch out, because Charles Darwin has a posse- and I’m in it! (I saw a bumper sticker that said that once.)
I find putting the puzzle-pieces of religion and science can be very hard. I struggle, but I like to think that they do fit together in some way.
17~ I’m not Catholic but I totally agree that science and religion can work together perfectly well and back each other up. How can they be opposed? Of course, I’d a Christian Scientist….but that’s not really in reference to evolution or physics or whatever.
Dude. Thomas Aquinas. Need I say more?
Life would be soooo much easier if science and religion stopped shouting at one another and started doing productive things. I know both do productive things often, but…
*holds head in hands* Why do people care so much about who Jesus was? Why don’t they just concentrate on what he said?
i am jwish and i totally believe that science and religion can mix. people who only think about religion are denying the facts and people who only think about science are denying what people have believed for thousands of years. LIVE WITH OTHER PEOPLES OPINIONS, PEOPLE! sorry.
I once read that god modeled enself on nature. I thought that was quite interesting an oppinion.
I CAN”T BELEIVE I MISSED DARWIN’S BIRTHDAY!
Darwin rocks.