The Lincoln-Darwin Myth Revisited

February 12 is the birthday of Abraham Lincoln as well as Charles Darwin, and last year at this time I wrote an article exploring Lincoln's support for evolution by intelligent design. A day later, I published a second article exposing a mythical account of Lincoln and Darwin being circulated by Wikipedia. Wikipedia erroneously claimed that Lincoln was greatly interested in Darwin's Origins of Species and was "deeply impressed" by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

The dust-u...