Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show ranks among my most favorite shows. It’s intelligent and funny, and does not shrink from calling a spade a commonly used gardening equipment with a wooden handle and a metal working surface. Here’s one hilarious segment on evolution.
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Evolution, Schmevolution – Panel: Edward J. Larson, William A. Dembski, Ellie Crystal

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If you have 15 minutes to spare today, you have to read this Malcolm Jones article, “Who was more important: Lincoln or Darwin,” in the Newsweek issue of July 2008. (Let’s also take a moment to reflect on our great fortune that we live in an age when it is possible for us to have access to so much great stuff to read without having to visit a physical library.) I quote a few bits from that article for the record but I entreat you to find the time to …

Darwin wrote:
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding laws out of large collection of facts.”
Quotes from the Jan 2009 special issue of Scientific American on the Most Powerful Idea in Science issue.
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Here’s what Gary Stix’s article, “Darwin’s Living Legacy”, in that issue begins with:

The Vatican has decided that Charles Darwin was not really wrong. In a remarkable display of mealy-mouthed post-hoc rationalization, it claims that Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is not inconsistent with the idea of a biblical creation of life. Vatican Buries the Hatchet with Charles Darwin, says TimesOnLine.

Feb 12, 1809 must have been an extraordinary day.
It is special for me because two of my heroes were born on that day. Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were both born on this day 200 years ago. This year, 2009, is also the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s book, On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
So I will dedicate the next couple of posts on Darwin and Lincoln.
Happy Birthday, Mr Lincoln and Happy Birthday Mr Darwin. The world is a better place for …