Today would had been the 195th birthday of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
Some evolutionary biology links for your blogroll:
- Read Carl Zimmer’s wonderful weblog, The Loom. Well, except when get starts talking about parasites, then I squirm.
- Zimmer contributed to Berkeley’s website on evolution. A good resource, especially if you’re a teacher.
- Pharyngula teaches biology at the University of Minnesotta, and smacks around the Creationists.
Evolution is compatible with many religions. However, if your religion tells you that the world is six thousand years old, that it was created by fiat over the span of six days, that species are immutable, that all existing species are derived from a select few rescued from a flood in a big boat, and any of a host of other silly stories that are directly contradicted by the world around you, you’re just going to have to accept the fact that the weight of the evidence from physics, geology, and biology all dictates that your religion is wrong. It’s that simple. You are wrong. Wise up. Find a better faith that isn’t so damned stupid. And if you are so inflexibly dogmatic that you can’t do that, you give up the right to dictate how science and education ought to operate.
