Andrea Harner
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December 1, 2005

Darwin exhibit @ American Museum of Natural History

We went to the Darwin exhibit this weekend and it was great. Of course we got there at 3:30 and all tickets until the 7:30 showing were sold out...very New York experience that I complained and complained about in typically bad attitude fashion until I realized it wasn't so bad to get coffee, get an attitude readjustment and walk around the rest of the musuem until 7:30 even thought it *was* a full four hours later.

Did you know that on Darwin's five year voyage around the world he discovered penguins in the tropics that had evolved to hold out their wings/fins over their feet in order keep their little feeties from getting sunburned??????!!!!!!!

Too cute. I love penguins and I *know* that everyone's riding that bandwagon after March of the Penguins but I really do love them ok??!! Leave me alone.

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Dear Andrea,

Glad you and Jonah made it to this exhibition. I would like to go myself. I don't suppose they had much on Darwin himself--his chronic gastric problems that were probably ulceratic colitis (the disease of geniuses).
Darwin viewed the natural world clearly and without prejudice. This is why his "discoveries" were soon considered commonplace and obvious.
Of course some people fight against Darwin, and in fact his insights have been in retreat for the past 40 years. I am not talking about the ïntelligent design" crowd, which is taken seriously by noone. I am talking about those whose political correctness does not allow serious discussion or thought about "social Darwinism."

Posted by: Daddy-O at December 1, 2005 8:23 PM
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