Happy Darwin Day!

Ok, I was just asked why I'm worshiping Darwin. Let's start with this. I worship no man or object or ideal.

He was a naturalist who believed not only in God, but believed that if he cataloged life he could support the claim that God made every animal special. After some time in the Galápagos Islands he began to catalog finches and realized the similarities between them except their beaks and hypothesized that a species of animal if separated due to geography they adaptions made over a long period of time will change the animal to best adapt to it's environment. Some finches ate bugs, others seeds, others small berries and their beaks changed.

This not only disturbed him, but knew that this kind of thinking will bring him hell. And yet upon death he knew that life followed a pattern of adaption in which the strongest and fastest animal were not favored, but the animal that can best adapt to it's environment. It not only angered his wife, a devout Christian, but his own faith demonized him stating that he blasphemed and took the world of biology off course. his contributions have not only allowed us to understand where we come from and who we are now, but it helped us understand "Germ theory", helped understand antibiotics, physical adaptions, the amount of stimulus to cause change, have connected to all of life to the simplest cell, and have given us a respect for all life.

I honor him on his day not only to remove the stigma place upon those who want to mire his name and work, but to continue a lie that is not only simplistic and full of holes but to perpetrate an ego that we are greater than all life and have no responsibility to our environment or actions. Above all, he faced great conflict and opposition in order to question what he observed and to have us today question what does not make sense in order to attain greater understanding. So no, I do not worship the man. I admire his work and am thankful he had the strength to speak out when he could have remain silent in order to make those around him happy in ignorance.

Happy Darwin Day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin