Happy Birthday Darwin
Well Darwin, this year it’s been 150 years since your book On the Origin of Species was published, and we’ve come a long way. Scientists have a much deeper understanding of the relationships between all known life on Earth, and your ideas have even helped guide us to a world without smallpox and polio, a world where influenza can be prevented, a world where we can understand what we are and why we are this way.
Sadly in some parts of the world, despite enjoying the many benefits of our understanding of evolution, a large percentage of people refuse to accept the simple truths that the rest of us have known for a century and a half.