SALON

Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 6:56 PM UTC

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin

The English naturalist would have been 204 today. To celebrate, a roundup of the people who hate his guts SLIDE SHOW

By

Topics: slideshow, Darwin, Science, Charles Darwin, Evolution, ,

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin (Credit: Shutterstock)

Did you know that today is Charles Darwin Day? In honor of the evolutionary biologist’s birthday, people around the world hold lectures, share research and generally make merry about one of history’s greatest thinkers.

But not everyone feels like celebrating on Feb. 12. Who? Glad you asked!

Happy birthday, Darwin (slideshow)

close X
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11
  • Kirk Cameron

    Sure, Cameron's anti-science shenanigans are old news, but I'm willing to bet that I'm not the only one who gets occasional pangs of Mike Seaver cognitive dissonance. Those fade pretty quickly when you hear him talk about the shape of the banana as the No. 1 reason evolution is a myth.

    Credit: Alan Light

  • William Steig

    Shrek creator, evolution hater. One of Steig's lesser-known books is called "Yellow & Pink," essentially a "Goofus & Gallant" on creationism and evolution. In it, Yellow comes off as a real jerk, talking about a "series of happy accidents" that created the world while Pink comes back with the creationist show-stopper, "How could our eyes be an accident?" Steig is with Pink on this one.

    Credit: Yellow & Pink

  • Mike Huckabee

    The guy can play a mean bass, but he also believes the world was created in six days.
    Credit: Shutterstock

  • Chuck Norris

    Norris once wrote a weekly column for conservative website WND, where he fired off this gem in 2006: "Here’s what I really think about the theory of evolution: It’s not real. It is not the way we got here. In fact, the life you see on this planet is really just a list of creatures God has allowed to live."

    Credit: Wikimedia Commons

  • Ken Ham

    Who is Ken Ham, you ask? How dare you! Why, he is only the creator of the most famous, most awesome and most fun anti-evolution creationist museum ever to exist. Please, skip ahead to the next slide and educate yourself about the Creation Museum, pronto.

    Credit: Wikimedia Commons

  • Stop by the Creation Museum to see THIS!

    Credit: Creation Museum Virtual Tour

  • And THIS!

    Credit: Creation Museum Virtual Tour

  • And THIS!

    Credit: Creation Museum Virtual Tour

  • Ben Stein

    True story: When I first heard that Ben Stein was a creationist, I momentarily confused him with Bill Nye the Science Guy and my heart broke. A quick Google set me straight, reassuring me that the treasured scientist from my youth was not an anti-evolution wingnut. Instead, it was the "Bueller ... Bueller ... Bueller" guy.

    Credit: Wikimedia Commons

  • Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar

    The Duggars have 19 children, so clearly they have no use for reason. (Just kidding! Have as many kids as you want, people!) But seriously, they're creationists, recently bringing the entire brood to the Creation Museum on a family outing.

    Credit: Wikimedia Commons

  • Recent Slide Shows

  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11

Katie McDonough is an assistant editor for Salon, focusing on lifestyle. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com. More Katie Mcdonough.

Next Article

Related Stories

More Related Stories

Featured Slide Shows

The week in 10 pics

close X
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11
  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
    Credit: AP/LM Otero

  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
    Credit: AP/Matt Rourke

  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
    Credit: AP/Jenny Aicher

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
    Credit: AP/Molly Riley

  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
    Credit: AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Jeff Scheid

  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
    Credit: AP/NASA/Chris Hadfield

  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
    Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
    Credit: AP/The Duluth News-Tribune/Clint Austin

  • Recent Slide Shows

  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11

Related Videos

Comments

 4 Comments

Comment Preview

Your name will appear as username

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href=""> <b> <em> <strong> <i> <blockquote>

follow salon

Most Read

Popular on Reddit

links from salon.com

vote
How right-wingers use semantic tricks to kill government -- "...much of the U.S. economic security support system consists of subsidies for the affluent in the form of tax breaks, like those for private retirement savings plans such as 401(k)s and private employer-provided health insurance."
63 points64 points | 3 comments
vote
Jon Karl makes things worse: He regrets “inaccurate” Benghazi email but says his story based on it “still entirely stands.” Really. ABC News?
54 points55 points | 14 comments
vote
FBI reportedly joins Bachmann campaign finance probe
55 points56 points | comment
vote
Doug Henwood: Capitalism Thrives on Class Exploitation
41 points42 points | 4 comments
vote
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”: The sci-fi classic that never was.
41 points42 points | 8 comments

From Around the Web

Presented by Scribol
listener_new_rect The Listener: So long, Sookie Stackhouse

Recommendations