HISTORY: HOW LINCOLN AND DARWIN SHAPED US.
Charles Darwin is the most controversial scientist of all time, except for Eistein.
The theory of evolution vs. the atom bomb.
The theory of evolution caused the rupture between science and religion that has never entirely healed.
In my studies of biology and evolution, I can see no direct evidence in today's world of evolution, except at the bacterial level.
I do not see it in higher lifeforms.
The only thing that could cause evolution would be some planetwide cataclysm.
The dinosaurs disappeared almost overnight.
It happened roughly 65 million years ago.
Most experts think it was an asteroid that hit off the coast of the Yucatan Pennisula in Mexico.
Planet wide destruction.
The theory of evolution fit's those circumstances, but in a world without destruction the earth's biosphere remains stable.
Lincoln is a subject I have always been ambivalent about.
He lead the United States through the Civil War, but at tremendous cost to the American People.
Lots of drama and lots of change and lots of unnecessary destruction.
Obama and George W. Bush want to follow in his footsteps for whatever reason.
Heroes matter, until they take hold of your brain in unhealthy ways.
In essence, Darwin and Lincoln have limited utility in the current debates. At least in my opinion and from what I have seen and heard and done.