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• Charles Darwin - A true legend

  thewall.com | 4:02 pm Feb 12, 2012

  • People around the world are celebrating Charles Darwin's birthday with cakes and toasts
  • People have joined together to rebuild the HMS Beagle ship in which Charles Darwin travelled around the world and formulated the evolutionary theory
  • They are rebuilding the ship to commemorate Charles Darwin ahead of his 200th birthday
  • Once completed the new Beagle will carry young scientists around the world to inspire the people

• Happy birthday Charles Darwin!

  guardian.co.uk | 2:17 pm Feb 12, 2012

  A few years later, the day might have been marred by the fresh memory of a lecture from his father. "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, " he'd admonished, "and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family."Over the next…

• Bill O'Reilly Proves God's Existence - Neil deGrasse Tyson

  colbertnation.com | 12:26 am Feb 13, 2012

  Bill O'Reilly proves the existence of God, but then Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how tides change.

• Happy Darwin Day!

  richarddawkins.net | 9:37 pm Feb 12, 2012

  203 years ago today, Charles Darwin was born in a manger in Shrewsbury, England, the son of a wealthy doctor and an heiress from the Wedgewood china firm.   Although he’s most famous for On the Origin of Species—and let’s recall the full title, On the…

• Happy 203rd Birthday, Charles Darwin!

  freethoughtblogs.com | 11:04 pm Feb 12, 2012

  Celebrate! I hope you all skipped church, and are planning on a nice dinner with a little dessert and a little wildness after.

• National-Academies.org

  nationalacademies.org | 10:06 pm Feb 12, 2012
• International Darwin Day Foundation

  darwinday.org | 6:52 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Darwin Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  wikipedia.org | 2:17 pm Feb 12, 2012
• - RichardDawkins.net

  RichardDawkins.net | 6:28 pm Dec 13, 2011
• Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  wikipedia.org | 10:06 pm Feb 12, 2012

Most Popular Tweets (35)

• Feb 12, 1809 Charles Darwin was born. His fifth child published: The Tides & Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System (1899).

  @neiltyson - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  

  11:25 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Now add GH Darwin, author of "Tides…" (1899) to the list of who Bill O'Reilly would consider to be God: http://t.co/EdPW080s

  @neiltyson - Neil deGrasse Tyson
  

  11:47 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Check out the cake for Darwin! http://t.co/w8ohwJeE

  @SocialIQLady - Andrea Griffith
  

  10:16 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Today in 1809, Charles Darwin was born. He discovered that people who don't believe in evolution are evolved from brain dead banana slugs.

  @Disalmanac - Disalmanac
  

  10:01 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Darwin Day! - Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution Is True - http://t.co/dZHwWU1T http://t.co/wIuIWgD5

  @rdfrs - RDFRS(US)
  

  8:54 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Darwin Day,"a global celebration of science & reason." Husband took great photo of Darwin's re-created study: http://t.co/ZWG11FUU

  @bbedway - Barbara Bedway
  

  7:58 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy 203rd Birthday, Charles Darwin!: Celebrate! I hope you all skipped church, and are planning on a nice din... http://t.co/NbgHMUhZ

  @pzmyers - PZ Myers
  

  7:12 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Darwin Day! Charles Darwin, author of "On The Origin Of Species," was born Feb 12, 1809. #evolution

  @AdamTheSkull - Adam Russell
  

  7:03 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Charles Darwin was born today a couple hundred years ago. His ideas about where we come from are no longer a theory. Let's all rejoice!

  @williamcontrol - William Control
  

  6:58 pm Feb 12, 2012
• OHAI my lovely sentient products of billions of years of biological evolution of star stuff! Happy Darwin Day everyone! #atheism #atheist

  @Monicks - Monica
  

  6:43 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin, but you were wrong about evolution. It says so in this book... http://t.co/rGVVEDge #absolute gospel

  @rickygervais - Ricky Gervais
  

  6:39 pm Feb 12, 2012
• “@strombo: today is the anniversary of the great Charles Darwin's birth. Not to be confused with Karls Darwin... http://t.co/H7apZPzH

  @rickygervais - Ricky Gervais
  

  6:09 pm Feb 12, 2012
• http://t.co/n6CdmTmP - Happy Darwin Day! (Thanks to Iranian Atheists and Agnostics for the original)

  @RDFRS_UK - RDFRS UK
  

  6:07 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin & Abraham Lincoln. Both born on the same day in the same year, 1809.

  @JoeUnseen - JoeUnseen
  

  5:52 pm Feb 12, 2012
• By the by, if reason is your thing... Let's not forget that today is the anniversary of the great Charles Darwin's birth. @rickygervais

  @strombo - G. Stroumboulopoulos
  

  5:17 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy #Darwin Day! Consider Charles Darwin's legacy for today http://t.co/G2EN14N1 in this Yale video (5:56) fr @YalePeabody

  @Yale - Yale University
  

  4:25 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy birthday Charles Darwin! http://t.co/TgzmhUsK The 19th century naturalist was born on this day in 1809.

  @SmithsonianMag - Smithsonian Magazine
  

  4:07 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Darwin Day, everyone! Go evolve!

  @mireyamayor - Mireya Mayor, Ph.D.
  

  3:56 pm Feb 12, 2012
• New Post: Quahogs, Darwin, and grace: Today is Darwin Day, honoring a complex man with a stunningl... http://t.co/T7pxeA8y by @BHS_Doyle

  @anderscj2 - Edtech Feeds
  

  3:35 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy birthday, Charles Darwin http://t.co/rrMpKU0S

  @beagleproject - HMS Beagle Project
  

  3:29 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! http://t.co/ZCdJ9sCi

  @eol - Encyclopedia of Life
  

  2:30 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Catholic bishops working toward Darwin award: The other day gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was reported maki... http://t.co/HUNBsWgP

  @janinsanfran - janinsanfran
  

  2:00 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Darwin Day. New post: Darwin's lost fossils http://t.co/KP6mPOcF #darwinday #science

  @blogscience - Eoin Lettice
  

  1:53 pm Feb 12, 2012
• My recommended short read for Darwin's bday, the last 2 sentences of Origin (start at "Thus, from the war of nature…"): http://t.co/ehhNyO33

  @kejames - Karen James
  

  1:51 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin.

  @combatjourno - Combat Journalist
  

  1:24 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy belated birthday! Today is birthdate of Charles Darwin. Remembering his voyage & the one he put us on: http://t.co/UJYLkSGZ #evolution

  @m_m_campbell - Malcolm M. Campbell
  

  1:16 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy birthday Charles Darwin! - The Guardian (blog) http://t.co/4bGQt5sC

  @EvolutionDaily - Evolution Daily
  

  1:02 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin! #mbljr

  @MencobaBelajar - Mencoba Belajar
  

  12:58 pm Feb 12, 2012
• @MrSchuReads @AnitaSilvey Thanks for the tribute to Darwin (and Emma) on http://t.co/wmqPrScU today. Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin.

  @DHeiligman - Deborah Heiligman
  

  12:50 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Darwin Day: Have you noticed that Old Testament literalists suddenly understand metaphor when they read Jesus' words on wealth and charity?

  @mjfiorello - Michael Fiorello
  

  12:49 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, born on the same day in the same year! Wow! What a day. Two of the all time greats.

  @mfinnigani2i - Michael Finnigan
  

  12:31 pm Feb 12, 2012
• Today the birthday of JudyBlume, Jackie Woodson, David Small, and Charles Darwin. Charles and Emma. http://t.co/pO3dPdBh

  @anitasilvey - Anita Silvey
  

  12:00 pm Feb 12, 2012
• "Australians are basically English rednecks. If Darwin had landed in Australia, he would have gone: 'I'm wrong'." ~Robin Williams

  @AMillionLaughs - A Million Laughs!
  

  11:37 am Feb 12, 2012
• Happy birthday Charles Darwin! http://t.co/e36Dg5bs

  @astrojenny - Jenny ★
  

  11:30 am Feb 12, 2012
• Happy Birthday Charles Darwin - he won't hear it because there's no afterlife but say it anyway, it annoys the fuckwit creationists.

  @theeyeofreason - dave young
  

  11:25 am Feb 12, 2012