I am Darwin?

Here's another youtube bandwagon to jump on: I Am Darwin. Get in front of your webcam and talk about how Darwin has influenced you, concluding with "I am Darwin", and send the youtube link to Tom Barbalet. How many Darwins are out there, anyway?

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We Are All Darwin Now.

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

um, except for me, that is.
I am Spartacus.

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

No, I am Darwin! (And Spartacus)

By Teleprompter (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

I'M Darwin, and so's my wife! I mean, and so's my domestic-partner-until-that's-illegal-too!

There are those who call me...Tim.
How about "We are Devo"

Since she's not here to do it for herself:

SC is Kropotkin!

(Minus the beard, I'm guessing.)

By Nick Gotts (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

When I was 3-4 yrsold,I used to play in the backyard with ants, putting them through suicide missions in bottles and bowls of various fluids, like water, oil, dirty water etc. and then put them into various nests, according to the trials I had put them thru. Some survived, some didn't. when I met the Rev. Darwin immediately thought I'd met an old intellectual friend.I went to a private catholic school which taught Darwinian (and Aquinian) concepts. the only time they baulked, was when, in the early 1960's in religion class, I asked (b4 the discovery of quarks),"If a  proton is One and Indivisable , is a proton god. They then took me aside asked me if I still believed in Catholic teachings; when i said "er,No..." they excused me from attending any further religious events (on condition I wouldn't try to convert anyone to my views (at school). I think that head nun, was a bit of a free thinker herself. Your Aussie mate, Mindlesley

By mindlesley (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

Can't get the utube thing together hence text.

By mindlesley (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

We are DEVO. D-E-V-O!

Glen, on Lewontin's 200th birthday you can do "I am Lewontin." If anybody still remembers him then.

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

I'm an ignorant slut.

I am the walrus.
coocoocuchoo

If you were really the walrus, you'd be able to speak walrusian witout that accent: "goo goo goo joob."

By Sven DiMilo (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

Huzzah for the Cuttlefish!

Hello. I'm a Mac. I run on Darwin.

Yep, the good ole Darwin kernel, running as I type.

Congratulations to Cuttlefish on his book. He's beating PZ to publication.

I am Isaac Asimov.

By Nerd of Redhead (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

I'm a Sphere Coupler...duh

By Sphere Coupler (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

We are all Darwin!

I am NOT Ben Stein.

By T. Bruce McNeely (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

Crap. I don't have a webcam, but I wrote something recently about what a difference evolution made in my life, setting me free of the last of that Deep South childhood racism.

Maybe I'll see if anybody I know here in Schenectady has one.

ARE WE NOT MEN??

WE ARE DEVO!!

Aaaahhhh!!!
Childhood memories

By teammarty (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

So, is this based on "I am PC"? Are we really going to fall for this one?

It beats being based on "I am Joe the Plumber!"

By noncarborundum (not verified) on 16 Nov 2008 #permalink

I am the Individual Eleven! (that actually predates the "i am pc" thing, by a long shot.) Darwin is the Individual Eleven. Our individual egos will carry out our collective will!!

"How many Darwins are out there, anyway?"

If Darwin is a unit of evolutionary change, there must be trillions of 'em!

I am not a Darwinist. Darwin is not an authority. But Darwins farreaching insight about the totality of life otoh has been developed and strengthed for 150 years.

Though just a layman I'm guessing (and hoping) we're standing at the dawn of an 'genetic age' having amassed a critical mass of information (and computer power) to really begin taking advantage. To make biologic matter work for us at the molecular level, for medicine, food, fuel and areas we have not yet imagined.

I that sense I'm Darwin.

By ihedenius (not verified) on 17 Nov 2008 #permalink

He really annoyed me. I mean, if you are going to have a show with a talking dolphin with an electronic translator, why make the translator voice sound like the dolphin so it's all hard to understand? Just give it a normal voice. Sheesh.

Oh, wait, there's another Darwin?

By Quiet_Desperation (not verified) on 17 Nov 2008 #permalink

Ah yam what ah yam and dats all dat ah yam.

I'm not a doctor, I'm "The Doctor."

I am Charles Darwin--ninety-nine point nine percent
There's a little variation that I don't share with the gent
But we share a common blueprint, which is kinda what he meant
When he came to the conclusion that we're all of shared descent

I am Charles Darwin--what I mean is, I am Man
I'm a billion trillion accidents instead of One Big Plan
Just a step or two from chimpanzee or from orangutan
Maybe more than distant cousins, but you recognize the clan

I am Charles Darwin--I can't help it; it's my genes
We're mutation and selection, see, when no one intervenes
Like a god with claimed omnipotence, or alien machines
None better and none worse than us, is really what it means

I am Charles Darwin--I was never Eden-cursed
I am just another animal, I'm neither best nor worst
From primordial beginnings, look how widely I've dispersed
Such a beautiful idea...Charles Darwin saw it first.

http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-charles-darwin.html