Reinhold Leinfelder
No, dear Charles Darwin, we have your current 202nd Birthday to remember, even if we divert the current events in Egypt (Evolution? Revolution? Intelligent Design?) Or the Berlinale (Survival of the Prettiest? Survival of the Wittier?) A bit. Too much will actually be your birthday today not by the network. After all, some Birthday dinners and other celebrations, especially in American museums, a Darwin-resolution there again, also some reports on the life and work of Darwin, even a reference to the DNA testing of the grandson of Charles Darwin , as well as the usual other: a little bit to creationism, and the usual exploitation Darwin the discrediting of any religion.
But we rejoice with you in particular about the many birthday cakes, you've got today. What? Not at all familiar? So, the Bake-A-Cake-For-Darwin Contest Beaty Biodiversity Museum of in Vancouver is really something quite special. Enjoy your meal and all the best for the next 98 years. There
Darwin Cakes here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatymuseum/sets/72157625873558025/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beatymuseum/
(incidentally, found via http://www.macnotes.de/2011/02/12/kolumne-rumble-in-the-jungle/ . even in the operating system Apple uses the Darwin Core).
The most important and gratifying, however, that the subject of evolution after 200 Birthday of Charles Darwin is not gone , but that evolution topics Darwin of 2009 into UN biodiversity by 2010 went over and was here also repeatedly stressed that biodiversity is nothing but the product of evolutionary factors variability, Adjustment and Selection is (though the man-made selection pressure adaptability and variability today is excessive limits). Now we celebrate the International Year of Forests 2011 , this too to some extent a subject of Charles Darwin, for his first stop after crossing the Atlantic was the visit of the Brazilian rain forest behind Salvador da Bahia. He found him so fascinating that he certainly drew from it the power to explore, as much.
So, dear Darwin, at least since you we know that everything is in the nature of things right.
But we also know that d u then the giant earthquake in the region Conception-Chile from 20/02/1835, when you were even in Valdivia, Chile are very frightened .
Although the region of the Andes and its foreland is huge earthquake-active, it just there will be so long trembled no more, that geologists have named the 200 km long zone between Conception and Constitucion for you even " Darwin gap " .
This gap is extremely dangerous, as the world had experienced at 27.2.2010, as it accumulated to dangerous tensions that erupted in February 2010, again in a very severe earthquake with a magnitude 8.8, the 700 people fell victim to . Scientists warned then, that not the entire Darwin-gap have relaxed e. You were right, because not only beginning of 2011 there was another heavy, but mild tremors emanating . No, just today gave it right on your birthday two more serious earthquakes in the region from Conception . So we know thanks to you and your mentor Charles Lyell in geology, that earthquakes can be explained naturally, that the Koninzidenz your birthday with the earthquake in the region named after you is nothing but an accident within a statistical probability of another earthquake of this region, so everything that was received with all things natural and in no way an attack fundamentalist Science deniers on your birthday was. After all, this is reassuring.
