There's My Church, I Sing In The Choir

Charles Darwin was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln. You may not have heard about that, what with all the talk about Lincoln's birthday and all the talk about how our grumpy new President is learning the hard way that it's a hell of a lot easier to run for President than it is to be President. Feel free to look away if evolution makes you uncomfortable; if it does not make you uncomfortable (and you're in the mood for a link-fest), click here for a post concerning evolution on Cosmic Log, the lovely blog run by MSNBC science editor Alan Boyle. The first point he makes is that quite a lot of religious congregations will be talking about religion and science this weekend, which has apparently come to be known as Evolution Weekend, a project devoted to dispelling the myth that religion and evolution can't get along. The really cool part? The guy who started the whole thing, Michael Zimmerman, is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at our very own Butler University. Yeah...progressive religious thinking in Indiana. Who knew? (And yes...sigh...that is sarcasm.)