On the Origin of Species - 150th Anniversary

"It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
-Charles Darwin

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[chochopoopoo]

@kalamain, you couldn't have put it any better. so tragic that some absolutely refuse to recognize the overwhelming evidence. it goes hand in hand, making a great mutualism with Mendelian genetics. "Most". you need to check that word, considering this wonderful process occurs continually, before our very eyes. finches were simply one of the inspirations, but now we observe natural selection occuring all the time in the Galapagos. A beautiful video.

[ElShadaiLives]

ROFLMAO!  Darwin was very intelligent! He has all of you believing in a book that is misnamed! It isn't about the origin of species! It is about the evolution of species after the origin! Digest that you Darwinists!

[flyingfisbeefilms]

Cheers to you!

[WalkOnStyx]

Greatest man of all times.

Long Live Atheism.

[kalamain]

Powerful words.

So powerful...They changed the way we see the world.

Its a pity not everyone can see it for what it is.