A valentine for Mr. Darwin

Yesterday was Charles Darwin's 200th birthday (or would have been had we evolved for greater longevity). And tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Hence this token of affection.

Why do we love him? Partly because he taught a new and natural basis for human self-love and self-esteem, a great gift to a species prone to both self-disparagement (we are all sinners) and raging narcissism (we are images of God). Darwin's contribution wasn't the notion of evolution, which had been advocated by others. It was...

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