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Happy Darwin Day!

Posted by Zonk on from the go-evolution-its-your-birthday dept.

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."

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  1. +3 Funny? Come on, mods, put some effort in! (-: by leonbrooks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    +5 Insightful, methinks.

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  2. What's the weather like on your planet? (-: by leonbrooks · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Religion beliefs produce large populations because they ignore reality. Science is left to figure out ways to protect this huge population. If religion and science wasted all their time arguing about it they would not evolve. So insert the greedy politicions and the species evolves in a steady forward motion.
    Yeah, well, I can understand why you'd mod him down for the homophobia, but I think this part of the post deserved a +1, Funny...
    Amino acids cant improve themselves without defining improve first.
    ...and this needs a +1, Insightful.

    Sigh. Chances of getting CowboyNeal to allow separate moderation of selected sentences?
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  3. Re:Insane by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Nuts come in all shapes and sizes: Christianity has All Saints Day,Christmas, Easter, Lent, ...; Judaism has Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, Hannukah, ...; Islam has Ramadan, Eid El Fitr (end of Ramadan feast), Eid of Adha, ...; Hinduism has Krishna Janmashtami, Navaratri, Diwali, ... and that is only to name a few. All of which are "celebrations " of the specific religion towards (a) specific deity (god, gods, person, ...).

    The questions should not be who is stupider? who is more close minded? or who is worse?, but why do humans feel the need to pledge allegiance to groups with similar beliefs or thoughts. This is the scary part as it prevents individual development and separates humanity from one another stagnating development of humanity as a whole.

    On a lighter note, there is empirical evidence for evolution whereas you cannot prove empricially that your god(s) exists. Attempting to do so could be, according to Steve Mirsky's column in this month's Scientific American (pg 104), "...considered pointless. Or even blasphemous."

    Should humanity celebrate science or religion? In the case of progress it is imperative that we recognize scientific achievement as a departure from and alternative to religion. Darwin day is not a day where Evolutions pray to Darwin, but a day where everyone can consider plausible evidence for scientific theory.