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posted by janrinok on Monday February 11 2019, @03:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the monkey-business dept.

Darwin Day is a celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday, the theory of evolution and science in general. This year marks his 210th birthday and 160 years since the publication of The Origin of Species. Those looking to celebrate or learn more about Darwin and evolution will find a wealth of events going on, or if you'd rather not leave the house, try a Darwin Day card with designs generated by simulated evolution.

Recently, an important finding in man's evolution was announced; the so-called Missing Link was confirmed. Australopithecus Sediba fossils were found in 2010 but it took a decade of research and debate for scientists to confirm that this was indeed the missing link that connects man's evolution in an unbroken chain back to primate ancestors.

Not everyone is down with Darwin. The Pew Research Center reports, "In spite of the fact that evolutionary theory is accepted by all but a small number of scientists, it continues to be rejected by many Americans. In fact, about one-in-five U.S. adults reject the basic idea that life on Earth has evolved at all." In Indiana, senator Dennis Kruse introduced a bill that would, among other things, "require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science."


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday February 11 2019, @07:53PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday February 11 2019, @07:53PM (#799713)

    in 2019 "being racist" merely means being well educated in biology or statistics.

    Oh, really? What exactly are your credentials? What degrees do you have? What are your published academic works on the subject? How long have you been using your knowledge in the fields of biology and statistics professionally?

    Or, as I suspect is far more likely, is it that you spent your time reading a bunch of racist recruitment material somewhere on the Internet and have now decided that anything that disagrees with that must be wrong, never mind the facts?

    I do agree there's no closet here, though. Except, of course, that VLM doesn't have the guts to identify himself and thus find out if his employer(s), friends, family, etc find his arguments compelling.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday February 12 2019, @02:26PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday February 12 2019, @02:26PM (#800078)

    If your side of the argument has nothing beyond logical fallacies like appeal to authority, citation needed, namecalling, and threats of doxing, that means my side has already won, thanks!

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @07:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @07:44PM (#800275)

      Believe that all you want, "your side" is a bunch of whiny entitled white boys who make up a small percentage of the population. No amount if "winning" on the internet will change that, and you should realize by now that every time you think you've "won" and gotten your "yummy liberal tears" it is just making someone angry that such idiots like you exist. Not exactly a real win just pissing people off, but it is better than your genocidal tendencies.