[warwickgreen]

Almost as controversial as Henry Morgentaler getting an OC.

Quote:

"It was almost a non-event when, on July 1, 1858, Darwin unveiled his theory of evolution," Keith Suter writes in The Daily Telegraph. It was the beginning of a scientific revolution and controversy that still rages today - to the extent that some American schools ban it from being taught. The Linnean Society of London, a scientific body, met in the grand ballroom at Burlington House ... in central London to transact business and hear two papers: On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties and The Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection. Most scientists left the meeting unimpressed - they had failed to see the significance of what was being argued. Neither of the authors, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, were at the meeting. But they had lit the fuse and the explosions would rumble on for another 150 years. The men would be seen as the greatest Britons of their day. They would also be among the most hated, being cursed from church pulpits across Britain and other parts of the world."


DARWIN

[xerxes]

It's only controversial to the people who reject science and reason.

[warwickgreen]

xerxes wrote:

It's only controversial to the people who reject science and reason.

My tongue was tucked firmly in my cheek when I wrote it. After having been exposed to the "Intelligent Design" crowd I'm more than satisfied Darwin was right.

[Blue_Nose]

If you have organisms that vary, competition between those organisms, and heredity, evolution MUST necessarily occur - not "may perhaps", not "theoretically might" - MUST occur.

[sandorski]

May Baby Darwin bless us all on this great day.