

Since today is Darwin Day, some comment seems warranted–especially because I see which science & faith topics are most popular here on the blog. At the same time, I feel pretty conflicted about the idea. While I appreciate Darwin’s contributions to science, I also appreciate why honoring him specifically seems like a deliberate tweak of folks who find evolution challenging. And I think it’s possible to put too much focus on Darwin himself and exacerbate the impression that evolution was just an idea he had that caught on for ideological rather than scientific reasons. So let’s talk about Joseph Graves, Jr., the first African American to earn a PhD in evolutionary biology.
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