From the February 2009 Scientific American Magazine | 41 comments

A Skeptic's Take on the Public Misunderstanding of Darwin

On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday two myths persist about evolution and natural selection

Darwin was born on February 12, 1809, the same day as Abraham Lincoln, who also struggled to reconcile our binary natures in his first inaugural address on the eve of the Civil War: “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

Note: This article was originally printed with the title, "Darwin Misunderstood".

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Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic (www.skeptic.com) and author of Why Darwin Matters.

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