Charles would turn 199 today, were he still alive. In celebration of the intellectual freedom his writings have engendered, please be sure to use that one trait of the human species which through evolution has led to our dominance on this planet - the intellect. Watch Inherit the Wind with your family, or read the play outloud. Go to a museum of natural history (a real one). Have friends over to dinner and serve them primordial soup, followed by spaghetti and meatballs. Bake a cake with 250,000 candles for each year that homo sapiens have been around (estimated, of course - people that old don't like to give out their real birthday). Just don't forget that learning doesn't stop when you're handed a piece of paper at 18 or 22, and the fight against ignorance continues without abatement on the battlegrounds of humanity.
I'm taking the family to Hawaii's north shore and Hanama Bay. Playing in tide pools should make for a good lesson on evolution for my kids.
Child 1: Is it true that humans came from apes? Me: Yes, it is true that humans and modern-day apes share a common ancestor. Child 2: Well that explains Beyonce.
Holy shit, are you serious? She's a very pretty girl, a little thick for my tastes, but I see no simian resemblence. Now this guy, on the other hand:
But that would conflict with environmentalists who want us to not have children at all in order to not harm Mother Earth who created herself.
Except that caring for munchkins seems to have the effect of sucking the intellect right out of an adult, at an exponential rate, relative to the number of children.
Are you kidding? I baby sat for a friend a few years back. When I did, I would read to the kid (about 1.5years). The book? History of the Peloponnesian War.