
American Minute with Bill Federer
Born Same Day, Darwin v. Lincoln, but Lives Had Opposite Effects
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day, FEBRUARY 12, 1809, but their lives had opposite effects.
Lincoln is best known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and freeing millions of slaves, claiming all men are created equal, as he stated in his Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863:
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Darwin’s theory of evolution claims men were not created, instead, they evolved, and all men are not equal, as some are more evolved than others…