Darwin turns 200!

[warri0r45]

His revolutionary ideas changed biology forever. Happy Birthday Darwin. :)

 

 

 

I think I remember a TV program of his life and work being advertised on TV, so I might chase that up and have a look.

[Lateralus]

At the end of his life he said almost all his information was false.

 

On another note I saw a Jesus fish that said Darwin in the middle and it had legs on a car :lol:

 

 

 

If you're talking about his supposed deathbed conversion then you're wrong. That's just a malicious rumour.

[MirageOfDeath]

Pissing fundamentalists off since 1809 :thumbup:

[fastortoise]

A.) He's dead.

 

 

 

B.) He's dead.

 

 

 

C.) He's dead.

 

 

 

D.) He didn't come up with the theory of evolution, as that had already been postulated long before he arrived.

 

 

 

E.) The guy was wrong is basically wrong in regards to everything except for natural selection.

 

 

 

F.) Did I mention he's dead and dead people don't continue to have birthdays?

 

A,B,C, ...yes. thanks for clearing that up for us.

 

F, birthdays celebrate anniversaries of when you were born, so obviously dead people have birthdays too.

 

D, yes, we all know evolution has been proposed since 6th century BC. Only Darwin had the right idea. Haven't you heard?

 

E, the guy was basically RIGHT. Scientists are still marvelling how much he understood about life and learning from him.

[pureprayer]

A.) He's dead.

 

 

 

B.) He's dead.

 

 

 

C.) He's dead.

 

 

 

D.) He didn't come up with the theory of evolution, as that had already been postulated long before he arrived.

 

 

 

E.) The guy was wrong is basically wrong in regards to everything except for natural selection.

 

 

 

F.) Did I mention he's dead and dead people don't continue to have birthdays?

 

A,B,C, ...yes. thanks for clearing that up for us.

 

F, birthdays celebrate anniversaries of when you were born, so obviously dead people have birthdays too.

 

D, yes, we all know evolution has been proposed since 6th century BC. Only Darwin had the right idea. Haven't you heard?

 

E, the guy was basically RIGHT. Scientists are still marvelling how much he understood about life and learning from him.

 

I don't want to start a debate on if you have birthdays when your dead (yes thats something I would do :roll:) but it depends on how you look at birthdays to count them after the grave.

[Da Pirates]

EDIT: Nevermind.

[Sly_Wizard]

*Doesn't know why he's going to bother*

 

 

 

JC is dead, now stop celebrating Christmas, unless you admit that it's a Pagan holiday.

 

 

 

Yeah, but you see... JC isn't dead :

 

 

 

Anywho, in regards to this:

 

 

 

Happy birthday, Chuck! None of the evidence we have would make sense without your theory.

 

 

 

He can't hear you. He's dead -.-

 

 

 

E, the guy was basically RIGHT. Scientists are still marvelling how much he understood about life and learning from him.

 

 

 

...So I'm taking it you didn't read what I wrote out earlier? Darwin's theory of natural selection = Good (That's what's outlined in On the Origin of Species). Darwin's theory of everything else = Bad and pretty much all thrown out since the invention of modern genetics. Henceforth my original comment which you, apparently, didn't quite catch (For whatever reason or another). All the, for lack of better words, Darwin slurping is kind of funny. But, meh, whatever. Continue on!

[1_man_army]

He's still alive? He's gotta be like the oldest man in the world now

 

 

 

As sarcastic as I know that comment is, Darwin's tortoise was the world's oldest animal in captivity when it died in 2006 aged 176.

 

 

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 678631.ece

[warri0r45]

 

Happy birthday, Chuck! None of the evidence we have would make sense without your theory.

 

 

 

He can't hear you. He's dead -.-

 

 

 

You do know what a sentiment is, right? People aren't that stupid, so stop treating them like they are.

[Intriguing]

*Doesn't know why he's going to bother*

 

 

 

JC is dead, now stop celebrating Christmas, unless you admit that it's a Pagan holiday.

 

 

 

Yeah, but you see... JC isn't dead :

 

Yeah, I really don't know why you bothered either.

[dsavi]

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* Heinrich Abeken

 

* Khachatur Abovian

 

* Sir Thomas [bleep] Acland, 11th Baronet

 

* Robert Adams (handgun designer)

 

* Samuel Adler (rabbi)

 

* Franz Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens

 

* Prince Albert of Prussia (18091872)

 

* Rutherford Alcock

 

* Joseph Addison Alexander

 

* Alexander Allan (locomotive engineer)

 

* Juan Bautista Alvarado

 

* Constantin von Alvensleben

 

* Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana

 

* Archibald Hunter Arrington

 

* Timothy Shay Arthur

 

 

 

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* Benjamin T. Babbitt

 

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* Nikolaus Becker

 

* William Russell, 8th Duke of Bedford

 

* Theodor Benfey

 

* Park Benjamin, Sr.

 

* Giovanni Maria Benzoni

 

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* Albrecht von Bernstorff

 

* Georg Beseler

 

* John Ponsonby, 5th Earl of Bessborough

 

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* Gladden Bishop

 

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* Carl Ernst Bock

 

* Karl Bodmer

 

* Petrus Borel

 

* Adolph E. Borie

 

* Apollinaire Bouchardat

 

* Carl David Bouché

 

* Rees Bowen

 

* James H. Boyd

 

* Robert Edward Boyle

 

* Samuel Carey Bradshaw

 

* Louis Braille

 

* Alfred Brandon

 

* August Emil Braun

 

* Benjamin Brice

 

* Albert Brisbane

 

* John Edward Bromby

 

* William Penny Brookes

 

* William Henry Brookfield

 

* Nathan C. Brooks

 

* John Brown (builder)

 

* William Brown (New Zealand)

 

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* Mads Pagh Bruun

 

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* Edmund Burke (congressman)

 

* James Burke (boxer)

 

* Francis Burns

 

* Ephraim Willard Burr

 

* John Hill Burton

 

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* Alfredo Luís Campos

 

* William Cannon

 

* François Certain Canrobert

 

* Theodore Edward Cantor

 

* Cao Bá Quát

 

* Vasile Cârlova

 

* Kit Carson

 

* Charles W. Cathcart

 

* John Henry Challis

 

* William Chambers (politician)

 

* John R. Chambliss, Sr.

 

* Hannah O'Brien Chaplin

 

* Alvan Wentworth Chapman

 

* William Chappell

 

* Robert Charleton (minister)

 

* Pierre Adolphe Chéruel

 

* Charles Chiniquy

 

* John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne

 

* James Johnston Clark

 

* Daniel Clark (New Hampshire)

 

* G. T. Clark

 

* Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr.

 

* Beverly L. Clarke

 

* Freeman Clarke

 

* Mary Cowden Clarke

 

* Jean-Pierre Clément

 

* Thomas Green Clemson

 

* John H. Clifford

 

* John P. Cochran

 

* Philip St. George Cocke

 

* Cornelia Connelly

 

* Philip St. George Cooke

 

* August Carl Joseph Corda

 

* Robert Cornelius

 

* Cyrille-Hector-Octave Côté

 

* John Gregory Crace (designer)

 

* Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner

 

* George Rothera

 

* George Washington Cullum

 

* Benjamin Robbins Curtis

 

 

 

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* John A. Dahlgren

 

* Robert Dale

 

* Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny

 

* William S. Damrell

 

* Charles Henry Darling

 

* Cornelius Darragh

 

* Charles Darwin

 

* Thomas Alfred Davies

 

* Augustin de Backer

 

* Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck

 

* Edward Fellowes, 1st Baron de Ramsey

 

* Edward Degener

 

* Columbus Delano

 

* Louis Charles Delescluze

 

* Modeste Demers

 

* Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

 

* Santiago Derqui

 

* Maba Diakhou Bâ

 

* Hugh Welch Diamond

 

* Johan Henrik Dietrichs

 

* Edward Digby, 9th Baron Digby

 

* Alexander S. Diven

 

* Peter Donders

 

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* Isaak August Dorner

 

* William Dorrinton

 

* Thomas Drayton

 

* Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay

 

* Elzéar-Henri Juchereau Duchesnay

 

* James Duffy (Irish publisher)

 

* André Dumont

 

* Burr H. Duval

 

 

 

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* Pliny Earle (physician)

 

* Thomas Martin Easterly

 

* Elizabeth Eastlake

 

* Ira Allen Eastman

 

* J. Wiley Edmands

 

* Prince Eduard Franz of Liechtenstein

 

* Lewis Edwards

 

* Tryon Edwards

 

* David Einhorn (rabbi)

 

* Luther Elkins

 

* George Engelmann

 

* Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

 

* Eugene Flandrin

 

* James G. Evans

 

* Edwin Hickman Ewing

 

* Thomas Campbell Eyton

 

 

 

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* Johannes Fallati

 

* John Wilson Farrelly

 

* Jules Favre

 

* Samuel Morse Felton, Sr.

 

* Fernando Fernández de Córdova

 

* Thomas Finlayson

 

* Sidney George Fisher

 

* Asa Fitch

 

* Graham N. Fitch

 

* Edward FitzGerald (poet)

 

* John Alexander Fladgate

 

* Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin

 

* Valentine Fleming (judge)

 

* Brent Follett

 

* James David Forbes

 

* Xavier Forneret

 

* George F. Fort

 

* Nathaniel Greene Foster

 

* Thomas Jefferson Foster

 

* Narcisse Fournier

 

* Orson Squire Fowler

 

* Paula Frassinetti

 

* Amos Noë Freeman

 

* Emanuel von Friedrichsthal

 

* John Furniss

 

 

 

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* Ljudevit Gaj

 

* James Gamble (congressman)

 

* Theodor Gangauf[/hide]

 

Will all be 200 this year so lets all create threads.

 

 

 

Stole my information from WIKI

 

 

 

I could also post the next 400 (no exaggeration)

 

Andiris Perera Dharmagunawardhana, Fernando Fernández de Córdova, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner and Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust all turn 200 this year?! Wow, I'm their biggest fans!

[fastortoise]

...So I'm taking it you didn't read what I wrote out earlier? Darwin's theory of natural selection = Good (That's what's outlined in On the Origin of Species). Darwin's theory of everything else = Bad and pretty much all thrown out since the invention of modern genetics. Henceforth my original comment which you, apparently, didn't quite catch (For whatever reason or another). All the, for lack of better words, Darwin slurping is kind of funny. But, meh, whatever. Continue on!

 

Well, his theory on sexual selection became an entire field of modern evolutionary biology, so right there it's obvious that your information is wrong.

 

Secondly, I'm not claiming he is the inventor or the last key to evolution - he was neither. It would be ridiculous to ignore all the enhancements we've made to evolution over the last 150 years. Darwin, however, is the CORNERSTONE to all modern biology. He's a man who accomplished in one lifetime more than any of us could imagine doing in two lifetimes, which is why I thought he deserved his own off-topic topic.

[Deiophobus]

Someone always starts a fight at a birthday party, too much tequila I would assume.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While it may not be the anniversary of his discoveries, it's still a remarkable date. He was a very important person to modern science.

[BruceSmith]

The Monkey Trial!

 

 

 

We have a play of it today in town.

 

 

 

I'm going to see it tonight! I hope it's good. I saw the movie awhile back.

[assassin_696]

Now that it's past his birthday this thread might die, but I find it ridiculous that we should have to debate whether or not one of the pioneers of modern science deserves a thread honouring his 200th birthday. So any further petty minded debate to that effect (Sly Wizard) can clear off.

[Draconic]

At the end of his life he said almost all his information was false.

 

 

 

[cabbage] claim. Debunked hundreds of times.

 

 

 

Ok,so this year,Julius Caesar would be 2109 Years old

 

Jesus would be 2009

 

Saladin would be 819 years old,

 

So the real question is,so what?

 

 

 

But but but... 200 is divisiable (sp) by 100 :(

 

 

 

And on topic-

 

 

 

Happy birthday Darwin :lol: He's dead and I don't believe that there's an afterlife, but it's still a good 150 years since the beginning of modern biology.

 

 

 

EDIT: Woops :-# Wrong date.

 

 

 

Quite the 3 days, isn't it? Darwin Day, Friday the thriteenth, and Valentine's Day :thumbsup:

[Draconic]

...So I'm taking it you didn't read what I wrote out earlier? Darwin's theory of natural selection = Good (That's what's outlined in On the Origin of Species). Darwin's theory of everything else = Bad and pretty much all thrown out since the invention of modern genetics. Henceforth my original comment which you, apparently, didn't quite catch (For whatever reason or another). All the, for lack of better words, Darwin slurping is kind of funny. But, meh, whatever. Continue on!

 

 

 

[i']* My emphasis.

 

 

 

Yawn. Condescending remarks will be disregarded :shame:

 

 

 

Darwin's theory of everything else = Bad and pretty much all thrown out since the invention of modern genetics

 

 

 

Not really. The theory of natural selection was the keystone of of HIS version and continues to be in modern theory. Which is why he is attributed to the forumulation of how species change.

[Bouwzie]

Well, he's dead, so I find it quite pointless to say he turns 200, but his book had quite some effects, so congrats on publishing a book with so many effects (even though he's dead and can't read this which makes it quite stupid to type all of this, including this) :thumbup:

[dragoonson]

I am this close to making a sarcastic comment about getting an Einstein turns 200 in a coupl'a decades.(Damn he was old when he died)

[Distracted]

Man, that guy was a genius, he had actually thought of natural selection and such at the age of 29, but he didn't publish the book until he was 50. It's funny how a man who thought of working for the church ended up contradicting a lot of what Genesis said.

[The Dark Lord]

I remember reading about this on Dawkin's site before I heard about it in the news.

 

 

 

Happy [late] birthday, Charles Darwin!

 

 

 

It's funny how a man who thought of working for the church ended up contradicting a lot of what Genesis said.

 

 

 

Hehe. :P In my opinion, people who are brought up in religion sometimes have the tendency of moving the opposite way when they are exposed to new ideas. Sometimes this is more so than someone who wasn't exposed to religion. I'm curious. Was Darwin an atheist? To be honest, I've never seen anything that specifically said that he was or was not.

[warri0r45]

I remember reading about this on Dawkin's site before I heard about it in the news.

 

 

 

Happy [late] birthday, Charles Darwin!

 

 

 

It's funny how a man who thought of working for the church ended up contradicting a lot of what Genesis said.

 

 

 

Hehe. :P In my opinion, people who are brought up in religion sometimes have the tendency of moving the opposite way when they are exposed to new ideas. Sometimes this is more so than someone who wasn't exposed to religion. I'm curious. Was Darwin an atheist? To be honest, I've never seen anything that specifically said that he was or was not.

 

 

 

He eventually turned to agnosticism and he never identified as an atheist. [1] Apparently his wife was a devout Christian and he was mindful of her beliefs.

[Saru Inc]

Lol. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

Happy b day, to you, Mr Darwin.

 

 

 

 

 

So what kinda cake you gonna have?

[i_love_burritos]

You know that Francis Crick's [Co-discoverer of DNA] great grandfather, actually sent specimens to Darwin that aided him on his publication of The Origin of the Species.

[mmmcannibalism]

You know that Francis Crick's [Co-discoverer of DNA] great grandfather, actually sent specimens to Darwin that aided him on his publication of The Origin of the Species.

 

 

 

That is awesome