Today is Darwin's 200th birthday and it is unbelievable to me that after nearly 2 centuries, the ideas he put forth in the Origin of Species are still being debated. Apparently, 61% of Americans either don't believe in evolution or have no thoughts on it. (http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/11/darwin-200/) Really? 61% of people are not receiving a proper science education? I knew that scientific thought in this country was low and that a lot of people refuse to believe it for religious reasons, but I had no idea how severely out numbered the remaining 39% of us who do believe in evolution are. It almost makes me want to buy a darwin fish. Even Pope Benedict XVI has found a way to reconcile evolution with faith saying that if you don't believe God could have created a world that includes the possibility of evolution then you are limiting what he is capable of. Which, I think, is a pretty good argument for people who are having a hard time reconciling science with faith. It's certainly a lot better then steadfastly believing that the earth was only created 6,000 years ago.
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