# A Question about Darwin Day

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**Created:** [July 5, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-question-about-darwin-day/600 "2018-07-05T04:45:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 5, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/a-question-about-darwin-day/600/4 "2018-07-05T22:43:16Z")

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> [@Patrick](#):
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> To me Darwin Day is a celebration of the man who made a profound difference in the way we think about “who we are and how did we get here”.

Darwin did make a profound difference. There is some oddity here, both in the irrational opposition he calls down:

> [@AllenWitmerMiller](#):
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> There is so much horrendously false and extremely unfair propaganda constantly spewed about Darwin, as if he originated racism.

On the other hand, there is also some irrational veneration of him. If it is merely because he was a great scientist, why don’t’ we also have an Einstein, Kepler, or Hubble day? Why is he the only scientist that is granted a day of celebration? Can you help me make sense of that?

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