If you’ve not had too much Darwin by now, here are some more stories that caught our collective Nature eyes.

In the Guardian, palaeontologist Simon Conway Morris writes:

[P]erhaps now is the time to rejoice not in what Darwin got right, and in demonstrating the reality of evolution in the context of entirely unexceptional natural processes there is no dispute, but what his inheritance is in terms of unfinished business.

Isn’t it curious how evolution is regarded by some as a total, universe-embracing explanation, although those who treat it as a religion might protest and sometimes not gently. Don’t worry, the science of evolution is certainly incomplete.

The New York Times profiles Richard Milner, the singing Darwin. “Officially, he is a science historian named Richard Milner, but he regularly turns into his hero on stage — complete with white beard, bowler and cape — in a one-man musical, ‘Charles Darwin: Live & In Concert’,” says the Times, which also has a video profile. Here him sing here.

Also in the Times, Carl Safina writes that “Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live”:

By propounding “Darwinism,” even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one “theory.” The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The point is that making a master teacher into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching. So let us now kill Darwin.

Darwin has also popped up on an internet site I’m told is very popular with young people at the moment. ‘Twitter’ lets you post short messages, similar to the ‘txts’ you can send via a cellular telephone.

“Thanks to all my well-wishers on my birthday,” says ‘cdarwin’.

“Happy Birthday to my co-discoverer,” says ‘arwallace’. Samuel Wilberforce is less magnanimous.

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Secularist group posts ‘Praise Darwin’ billboards – USA Today

Google has a special Darwin’s 200th Birthday graphic (if it’s gone from the homepage, see here).