Today I yield to Ken Ham of "Answers in Genesis." The following is taken from answersupdate (Vol. 16, No. 2).

Two hundred years ago this month, and on the very same day, two famous people were born. Both of them greatly impacted the world, but one of them left a horrible legacy.

Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin both were born on February 12, 1809. Among President Lincoln's famous achievements, of course, was to free the slaves during America's Civil War of the 1860's. At this same time, Darwin's now famous book On the Origin of Species was gaining in popularity. But how did Darwin view dark-skinned people like these slaves?

In The Descent of Man, Darwin called those with dark skin "degraded," and wrote that he would rather be descended from a monkey than such a "savage."

Also, the subtitle of Darwin's main work On the Origin of Species further reveals his racist beliefs: "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" [emphasis added].

Sadly, this month evolutionist educators, scientists, and media leaders are celebrating a racist man who promoted racist ideas.

The focus should really be on a man like Lincoln who wrote that all men are created equal. Let us use this time to honor a man who saw all people as God's creation (as is taught in the book of Genesis), not a man whose ideas spurred and justified horrible racism.

Victor's note: Lenin, Hitler, and Stalin all followed Darwin's racist line of thinking, liquidating multiplied millions of "sub-humans" in the process.