Remembering the life of Charles Darwin
HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
By Dave Silva
LW contributor .
Feb. 12, 1809, is a special date in history because both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on that day. For Humanists, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, as explained in his landmark book “The Origin of Species,” published on Nov. 24, 1859, laid the foundation for a naturalistic view of life.
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