Charles Robert Darwin
12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882

Charles Robert Darwin, the man who invented the modern office chair and who proposed the theory of natural selection, would be 200 years and 5 days today.

Had he gone on the starvation diet, and extended his lifespan by about 127 years, he may have lived to laugh (or cry) at the born-again, yet non-evolved, ex-President George W. Bush.

Since Charles didn’t know about the starvation diet, he died in 1882. But not before becoming the first person of record, to put wheels on his desk chair, so he can glide around his laboratory and reach his specimens easier.

Amazingly, 150 years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, the majority of the modern ape-derivatives over-populating our planet, still believe that a large hairy guy with booming voice “made heaven and earth,” and then fashioned another little hairy guy, out of dust, or a blood clot, take your pick. It was, for a while, truly a “man’s world.”

And it all happened less than 10,000 years ago, depending on who’s God-inspired math you rely upon. So believe most poor, uneducated souls in the Third World, as well as a surprisingly large portion of the generally over-fed and under-educated North American public (yeah, this includes the Canadians, too.)

Such stupidity would be funny, if it didn’t impact the rest of us in so many ways. Most importantly, by filling Sunday morning TV with psychotic-looking characters with bad hair-dos, waiving their arms and asking the denser among us to send-in their salaries/pensions/welfare checks to them.

So, say I, let there be light! Or, at least, let there be better Sunday morning programming.

The World of Reason is upon us.