Comments | happyhumanist: Happy 198th Birthday, Darwin!

happyhumanist

Happy 198th Birthday, Darwin!

Feb 12, 2007 19:09

Today is Darwin day. Unfortunately, I'm not able to celebrate in the traditional ways: eating fish (goldfish, swedish fish, catfish...) and listening to lectures by people blindingly brilliant. Instead, I am a direct wittness to the mechanisms of evolution at work: that FSM-awful stomach virus that continues the plague this college ( Read more... )

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amolv88 February 13 2007, 05:01:00 UTC

Rofl...this is not a real holiday, nublet.

hearmemeep February 13 2007, 05:10:25 UTC

198? Really? I didn't realize it was that long ago... wow. Then again, I'm forgetting to put it in the perspective that the Origin of Species wasn't written until he was older in life ;)

I ate fish today! Ignorant of it being significant to this day, but still... :)

_devillicious_ February 13 2007, 14:23:40 UTC

haha, you're awesome~

amolv88 February 14 2007, 10:05:11 UTC

I guess this really has more to do with your last post, but I doubt you'd read it if I put it there, plus since this was done on "Darwin Day" it seems at least somewhat fitting, but here's a follow-up CNN did to their earlier discussion on atheism: (It's got Dawkins!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=u5AzNTI6Mf4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2DWQYZi10