"Charles Darwin was born on February 12, 1809. The theory of evolution, which he propounded, revolutionized the world of science and impacted society at large. As we approach his birthday in February, the Centers for Inquiry will be celebrating the contributions of Darwin and all the science teachers who labor in the schools to teach evolution and ward off continuing attacks from Creationists and Intelligent Design advocates."
Ed Buckner - Spring, 2002 Secular Humanist Bulletin
"...humanism is the dominant theme of the modern intellectual world because it provides a perspective on man and nature that is derived from the natural, biological, and behavioral sciences. It is a picture of a universe at least fifteen billion years old in which human life evolved by natural causal pressures."
Kurtz, Paul - IN DEFENSE OF SECULAR HUMANISM, (Buffalo: Prometheus Press, 1983) p. 8
BTW: I've read these source and not from AnswersinGenesis, ICR etc. More on Darwin Day and Humanists
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Fossil record:
For openers...
“The only illustration Darwin published in 'On The Origins of Species' was a diagram depicting his view of evolution: species descendant from a common ancestor; gradual change of organisms over time; episodes of diversification and extinction of species. Given the simplicity of Darwin’s theory of evolution it was reasonable for paleontologists to believe that they should be able to demonstrate with the hard evidence provided by fossils both the thread of life and the gradual transformation of one species to another.
Although paleontologists have, and continue to claim to have, discovered sequences of fosssils that do indeed present a picture of gradual change over time, the truth of the matter is that we are still in the dark about the origin of most major groups of organisms. They appear in the fossil record as Athena did from the head of Zeus-full-blown and raring to go, in contradiction to Darwin‘s depiction of evolution as resulting from the gradual accumulation of countless infinitesimally minute variations, which in turn demands that the fossil record preserve an unbroken chain of transitional forms.”
Schwartz, Jeffrey H. - Sudden Origins (NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1999) p. 3
I'd be happy to provide more about the record from other evolutionists if you'd like. Ignorance indeed.