Happy Birthday! And Thanks.

Today is Charles Darwin's 204th birthday! I haven't begun The Origin of Species yet (I've been busy reading oodles of other books), but maybe today is the day to check it out from the library and finally get started.
Darwin's discoveries have had such an enormous impact on the way I view the world, and his realization that man (and women;) is nothing more or less than every other living thing on earth has utterly changed the way I think about myself, other people and the rest of nature. And all of it is for the better. And I am forever grateful even if he'll never know it. Happy Birthday Mr. Darwin.