Happy Birthday, Chucky D!

Today is Charles Darwin's birthday. Unfortunately, it's difficult to wish him a happy birthday, as his theories continue to be attacked and mocked by the ignorant and superstitious. Though his theories about the origin of species were not perfect, they form the basis for evolutionary theory as we know it today. To clarify, evolution is a fact, not a theory. It is the exact process, natural selection, through which evolution occurs that is a theory, though evidence for it continues to mount.

All I can say about this is that, at a time, people believed the Earth was at the center of the solar system, so much so that they accused anyone of heresy that postulated that the Sun might instead be the center. Now, all reasonable people accept that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

It is a sad truth that superstition continues to attack science and reason. Though some may provide "evidence" to the contrary until their faces turn blue, I take heart in Galileo's (supposedly) muttered words after recanting before the Inquisiton: "Eppur si muove." Despite what men might say or believe, the Earth moves.