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Politics : Evolution
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To: LLCF who wrote (2406)2/13/2009 1:04:42 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
there will be Einstein day, etc

Doubt it. There have been a lot of scientists and inventors that have made important discoveries that have improved human life and understanding and they deserve recognition for that. Darwin is arguably pretty minor compared to many one can think of. Yet there is a "Darwin Day".

One could argue that religious objections to Darwin's theories or implications of it had a role in making Darwin "bigger" than warranted. Though Darwin had and still has his enthusiastic backers (Huxley and Haeckel etc, during his life, and figures like Dawkins and Dennett today) because they see Darwin as an important anti-religious figure - see Dawkins claim Darwin made atheist intellectual fulfillment possible. People like this hype Darwin because they seem him as essentially the prophet of an atheist faith.
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