Who was the most important person that was born on February 12th, 1809?
Why?
Why?
Who was the most important person that was born on February 12th, 1809?
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Jesus? :dunno:
Why? Erm, he........he.....err.....invented deodorant??
I wrote that before the pole was up
Darwin was the more important, if your talking global impact then Darwin wins. Lincoln might have been the greatest ever US president, but globally he didnt really have such an impact. Darwin changed everything we understand about the natural world, he gave us answers to the questions that were only anwsered before as "God's" work. With his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection he gave us an answer that said we were not created by an all mighty and after all human beings are not that special. We are exactly the same as every other living thing on this planet, we have all evolved over time from a single being and that is how we are here.
I'm sure Lincoln is important but is he as important as Darwin is in how we see the world today, no.
Why? Erm, he........he.....err.....invented deodorant??
I wrote that before the pole was up
Darwin was the more important, if your talking global impact then Darwin wins. Lincoln might have been the greatest ever US president, but globally he didnt really have such an impact. Darwin changed everything we understand about the natural world, he gave us answers to the questions that were only anwsered before as "God's" work. With his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection he gave us an answer that said we were not created by an all mighty and after all human beings are not that special. We are exactly the same as every other living thing on this planet, we have all evolved over time from a single being and that is how we are here.
I'm sure Lincoln is important but is he as important as Darwin is in how we see the world today, no.
Darwin. His theories have been beneficial to the whole world & gave humanity a new understanding of it's own past.
Lincoln might have been important to the US, but we don't know what would have happened if someone else had become president back then. Maybe we'd have a USA & a CSA now, maybe we'd have a USA where slavery would still be legal, maybe we'd have neither of those as the war might also have started with another president & thanks to the amount of troops the USA had, it's industry, the railroad connection in the north that allowed troops to move from spot a to b relatively fast and the opportunity to trade with foreign nations because their harbours weren't blocked versus the more motivated troops of the CSA (at the beginning of the war) I doubt the outcome would have been any different...
Even if the CSA had come out victorious, we don't know what the world would have been like today... We do know that if Darwin or someone with a similar idea hadn't been born, we'd probably still believe that the Earth is no more than 6000 years old and that God created us & put us in the garden of Eden...
Lincoln might have been important to the US, but we don't know what would have happened if someone else had become president back then. Maybe we'd have a USA & a CSA now, maybe we'd have a USA where slavery would still be legal, maybe we'd have neither of those as the war might also have started with another president & thanks to the amount of troops the USA had, it's industry, the railroad connection in the north that allowed troops to move from spot a to b relatively fast and the opportunity to trade with foreign nations because their harbours weren't blocked versus the more motivated troops of the CSA (at the beginning of the war) I doubt the outcome would have been any different...
Even if the CSA had come out victorious, we don't know what the world would have been like today... We do know that if Darwin or someone with a similar idea hadn't been born, we'd probably still believe that the Earth is no more than 6000 years old and that God created us & put us in the garden of Eden...
Devils Advocate:
Doesn’t a very large percentage of the population still believe that the earth is only about 6,000 years old and they don’t “believe” in evolution?
Are there any statues of Darwin in London? I know there is one at Parliament Square, London of Lincoln
Doesn’t a very large percentage of the population still believe that the earth is only about 6,000 years old and they don’t “believe” in evolution?
Are there any statues of Darwin in London? I know there is one at Parliament Square, London of Lincoln
No I wouldnt say the majority, isnt the 6000 year number only used by creationists? I think most people even religious people except fot the wacko's out there accept that evolution is the best way of explaining our being here. Some of them choose to spin the theory incorporating God into evolution. I think the wacko's of other religions (how are ya :hatsoff
have other dates when their God supposidly waved the magic wand.There is a statue of him in the Natural History Museum, but others I dont know:dunno:
Was this question directed at me?
I was answering the question put to us above :dunno:
No, it was for the OP. Although it was mostly a rhetorical question.
No worries, I kinda guessed that anyway. :hatsoff: So my reply seems like a complete waste of space now, never mind...
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Neither one of them were important. :tongue: :hatsoff:
Damn, Abe is getting his @#$# kicked
Darwin. Helped us move to reason. We are not there yet though.
Eric Lindros
#88
Darwin, I gues.
Darwin was important for the whole world, Lincoln "just" for the United States would I say as a European.
For US citizens you could say Lincoln was more important.
It's a tough question.
Darwin was important for the whole world, Lincoln "just" for the United States would I say as a European.
For US citizens you could say Lincoln was more important.
It's a tough question.
Devils Advocate II:
As far as Darwin, if he hadn’t made his discoveries, wouldn’t someone else have done it soon after?
As far as Darwin, if he hadn’t made his discoveries, wouldn’t someone else have done it soon after?
PlasmaTwa2
The Second-Hottest Man in my Mother's Basement
Alfred Wallace thought of the exact same thing, it was because Wallace was going to publish his work that Darwin published his.
And I'm going to vote for Darwin, though if there was a beard contest between the two...
^^Alfred Wallace (not to be confused w/William) I was trying to come up w/his name, but could not.
