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FSU professor of philosophy and author Michael Ruse has a piece in the Miami Herald<\/a> explaining why Charles Darwin and his work are worth celebrating.<\/p>\n

What fascinates me about the theory is the way that Darwin realized that he had a problem and how he set out to solve it. The problem is that of convincing people of something that they could never see. Short of having a time machine and traveling into the past, no one is ever going to see the change of fish into amphibians, and then on to reptiles, mammals, apes and, finally, to humans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FSU professor of philosophy and author Michael Ruse has a piece in the Miami Herald explaining why Charles Darwin and his work are worth celebrating. 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