Happy Darwin Day!

proclus writes "In honor of the day, I have released some autobiographical material, which forms the background for GNU-Darwin and some other projects. Alternatively, you can celebrate by joining the Friends of Charles Darwin, or baking some Trilobite Cookies."

Comments

Re:Insane

[varuul]

"This is crazy. Do we have a Newton day when we sing together and celebrate gravitation? No, because there are no Gravitationists like there are Evolutionists."

I am all in favor of a few Fig Newton's.

Re:Darwin is a fag

[Claire-plus-plus]

I would have thought that we could avoid homophobic insults on slashdot. Whatever you think about homosexuality surely calling someone a "fag" as an insult is rather immature. I thought slashdotters were smarter than that.

Re:Insane

[Madcapjack]

No, because there are no Gravitationists like there are Evolutionists

the only reason there are no Gravitationists like there are Evolutionists (as you say it), is simply because gravitational theory does not directly contradict people's religious beliefs like the theory of evolution does. Evolutionists are evolutionists because anti-evolutionists call them evolutionists instead of calling them what they call themselves, biologists.

Re:Er, that's Mathematicians

[Madcapjack]

"It's the Mathematicians who don't think evolution is possible"

Correction: some mathematicians Certainly not the majority who actually care to become intimately familiar with the subject.

Two: Evolution has occured irregardless of whether Darwinian theory of the mechanics of evolution are correct. The fossil evidence is massively clear.