Naturalistic Paganism

Happy Darwin Day!  This commemorates the birthday of the one who contributed the theory of natural selection to our understanding of evolution, Charles Darwin.  The idea that life on earth had evolved from a common Ancestor was already a big discussion point among biologists before Darwin was famous.  In fact, look at how our common Ancestry is described in this poem:

The Temple of Nature

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs’d in ocean’s pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing. Read More