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Before baking Darwin’s

Submitted by jrlewis on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 4:32pm.
Before baking Darwin’s birthday cake, I began considering how to decorate it. Is there any way to summarize Darwin’s theory sufficiently to fit it on an 8 in layer cake?  What could I possibly say to Darwin or my classmates about his life, work, and theory of evolution?  Should I have drawn a picture of a pigeon? A barnacle? A human?  Should I have scrawled the words natural selection?  Descent with modification?  What about the more controversial elements of the story?  The act of celebrating Darwin’s birthday already indicates his importance to us, our class culture…

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