Why Darwin Matters

Why does Darwin matter? It is because he cut through so much chaff with one of the most simple, beautiful and exquisitely sharp ideas. Evolution is Life's greatest and truest legacy and he was its most brilliant student.

Read Dawkins celebrating Darwin on the occasion of Darwin Day.

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Darwin's importance goes well beyond science, however. Darwinism was used (properly or improperly; it does not matter) to further "scientific racism" and other evils in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See for example Darwin day: a time to reflect, where I discuss various historian, political, and religious pundits views on Darwinism.