Today, 200 years ago, both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

And both, like a few others before and since, were hated because they did good things.

:patriot:               

[BlooInBloo]

1. That was a day that didn't totally suck for humanity.

[theoldman]

2. I watched two programs about Lincoln on Public Television.

The greatness of Lincoln is partially a myth because he was assassinated. Five hundred years from now we will remember Darwin as the father of evolutionary biology. Lincoln will be mostly forgotten just like the last emperor of China.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. I'm willing to bet against it. Lincoln will be remembered, like Isabel of Spain is remembered now.

He WAS notable enough.

We could each put $100 in a savings account and, if it reaches the year 2509 intact, the money go to the winner's heirs.

(I wonder if there can be an entity that could be trusted with such a bet.)

[theoldman]

9. Who is Isabel?

[boomerbust]

5. Two Great Yankees

[Eryemil]

6. Not to mention the fact that Darwin is an international icon. Lincoln, not so much.

[Evoman]

7. I doubt it....he sort of like a Catherine the Great, Gandhi, or Ivan the Terrible now.

I think he will probably be remembered.

Charles Darwin will be even greater, however. Put him next to Gutenberg, Einstein, and Newton.

[cobalt1999]

14. Lincoln is big in the U.S; Darwin is huge world wide

That and Darwin changed the very way we look at the world.

Lincoln won't be forgotten in this country, but he will be relatively less known in the rest of the world.

[moggie]

4. It's hard to compare the two

Lincoln had a cooler hat than Darwin, but Darwin's beard was better than Lincoln's. But Darwin has that "changed the entire fucking world for ever" thing going for him, which I don't think Lincoln could justly claim. So I think Darwin wins this round.

[stuntcat]

8. Right On!

:party: I'M celebrating both!! :party:

[moggie]

10. Google's tribute

Outside the US (try google.ca), google have changed their logo to a design featuring finches, with the alt text "Charles Darwin's 200th Birthday", and clicking on it does a google search for "Charles Darwin". But google.com remains unchanged. Hmm. I don't normally see these logo changes, since I don't google via their front page. But I think they normally change the logo at google.com when they commemorate things, so have they chosen not to do so this time simply to avoid upsetting creationists?

[EstimatedProphet]

12. I got the Darwin pic from google.com this morning, so it is changed.

[ThomWV]

11. OK, so now who can tell us Astrology is wrong?

Probably born at the very same minute.

[cobalt1999]

15. I can tell you it's bullshit.

Along with the rapists, murderers, cheats, low-lives were born on the same day.

[Jack Rabbit]

13. .

Photo by Matthew Harrison Brady
from the /Lincoln Association of Jersey City

[Kajsa]

16. Happy Birthday to two great men,

who changed our world.

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