{"id":1646,"date":"2010-02-12T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/happy-birthday-darwin\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:08:00","slug":"happy-birthday-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/happy-birthday-darwin.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Darwin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scienceandreligiontoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine_Darwin1-150x150.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scienceandreligiontoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Valentine_Darwin1-150x150.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There are many things around the web and blogosphere related to <a href=\"http:\/\/palaeoblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/born-this-day-charles-darwin.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darwin\u2019s birthday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinday.org\/events\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Darwin Day Celebrations<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>My colleague Michael Zimmerman suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandreligiontoday.com\/2010\/02\/12\/how-should-we-celebrate-darwin-day-michael-zimmerman-answers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ways to celebrate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>And of course there\u2019s the usual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anevolvingcreation.net\/standup\/2010\/02\/happy-birthday.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quote-mining and misinformation<\/a>, alas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7052447342796319543?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things around the web and blogosphere related to Darwin\u2019s birthday. 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