Happy 200th Birthday!
February 5, 2009 1:17 am Nature, Personal
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Our Dear Mr. Darwin would be a very spry (I’m sure) 200 years old this Feb. 12.
The man did so much for us. Aside from the claims of the idiots on the godder side of history, people of reason don’t worship him. But we do give a boatload of credit to a guy who worked so tirelessly, throughout his life, to understand and explain this most beautiful and fruitful idea: that all living things are interrelated. Man, how cool is that?
Here’s a painting of him done by premier natural history illustrator Carl Buell.
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Lest we forget: This is also the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. And bravo for that, too!
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PS: The above image is COPYRIGHTED. If you snake it from my site, after my friend Mr. Buell was so kind as to allow me to post it, I’ll hunt you down and feed you to the invertebrates. AFTER I superglue hungry ferrets to your knees.
If you want a copy of the painting — which is fully life-sized — for your own Darwin Day celebratory use, contact Carl Buell directly at Carl [at] olduvaigeorge [dot] com.
At least one college I know of is printing out the full portrait and mounting it on a cutout backing so that students can pose with it for pictures.
Leiah Bowden :
Date: February 5, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
I saw your comment on David Brickman’s blog and as I always do, clicked to see what you were about. Snappy blog! I like what you write and the visuals.
hankfox :
Date: February 5, 2009 @ 1:47 pm
Leiah:
Thank you!
david brickman :
Date: February 10, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Gee, we’re all linked, just like Mr. Darwin said!
Keep up the good work, Hank.
… and, by the way, I don’t care what the believers may think – I DO worship Darwin. His discoveries are indescribably important to those who wish to understand our earthly reality.
ddmckenna :
Date: October 6, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
I’ve always found it strange to hear people of a religious bent claim that Darwin’s ideas bring us to a cold and lifeless conclusion, an unsatisfying view of the world. To me, the idea that we are all interrelated is such a beautiful, elegant, wondrous concept. So are many other scientific and mathematical ideas. I think it’s unimaginative minds who can’t see the beauty in these things.
Colin Purrington :
Date: September 18, 2011 @ 7:32 am
Just wanted to update you on my Portable Darwin page … I’m moved all my pages, and saw that you’d mentioned the Darwin cutout.