I don’t give many birthday shout-outs ’round these parts at the Candle, but I’ll probably never get another chance to hip-hip-hooray like today, February 12th, 2009, the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin[^1].
So happy birthday, Abraham Lincoln, and thanks for weathering a civil war as one of the greatest statesmen our country has ever had, preparing for and leading to the modern age of a great — and united — nation.
Happy birthday, Charles Darwin, and thanks for kick-starting one of the greatest, if not the greatest, and most substantiated scientific theories of all time. Your theory will progress biological science and thwart the tireless, fevered efforts of cdesign proponentsists for eons to come (and hey, if it falls through for another theory — that’s just science, baby). And while it seems hardly necessary: Happy Darwin Day, too!
My congratulations and huzzahs might fall on dead ears, but just the same: Word up, gentlemen. Word up.
Some other events that took place on this day across the ages that might interest zero or more people: Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat in Italy, 881; Charles M. Schulz dies at 77 in 2000, his final Peanuts comic playing a swan song in national newspapers on the same day; and film auteur Jean Renoir fades to black at the age of 84, 1955.
[^1]: I’m not linking to Wikipedia for these blokes. If you don’t know the men behind the names, your brain is beyond due for a punctuated evolution.
RSS 2.0 (recent 10 posts)
