Happy 200th Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin!

Happy Birthday to two great men!

I thought I might both on the same cake, but NO LUCK!

I really have enjoyed the radio pieces on both guys today. Much to be learned from them both. I am glad Obama is thinking a lot about Lincoln and hopefully reading some history. I always feel better if the current President is a little bit of a history buff.

#4 - "I always feel better if the current President is a little bit of a history buff."

Me too, maggie. What's that saying? Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Is that it?

I have just a brief moment, but to honor their mutual birthday, I offer this simple evolution lyric to a song quite popular in Lincoln's day...

Sung to The Battle Hymn of the Republic:


My mind has learned the meaning of mutations over time
They will slowly make diversity from the primord'al slime
Natural Selection makes us all humans today
The truth of science wins!

Evolution explains clearlyyyyyyyyyy;
without bizzare complexityyyyyy;
Just open your mind and listen;
it's quite easy to grasp!


I rejected this, sung to Dixie, as not good at all, but as those who have known me for some time realize, I apply no editorial filters with regard to "quality" to what I post:

O, I guess I am a monkey's child
That thought's quite crazy and wild
Ev-o-luuuu....
tion tells meeee
My grandfolks
lived in treeees

O, I wish I lived in a tree!
Today! Today!
From my tree home I'd never roam
I'd live and die in the trees
Up there, Up there,
Up in the branches of trees!

0.o
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Well done!

Well, a happy 200 years for both of them.
May they not be forgotten in the future.

*applause*
*giggle*

re #4: The quote goes 'History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme'.

Yesterday I went to a stunning pair of lectures in honour of Darwin's 200th. Didn't know that Abraham Lincoln was his "twin".