When asked the mundane question “Who do you admire most?” my answer is Charles Darwin.

He was the first person to realize and codify that the richness and complexity of life could be perfectly explained without magic.  His application of the idea was to Biology, but it can also be equally applied to complexity on micro and macro scales.  Stuff just happens naturally and the outcome is selected, and given time complexity arises.  No magic required!

It’s so completely basic and obvious in hindsight, but took hundreds of thousands of years for a human to really recognize this simple and fundamental fact of life.  Kudos, Mr Darwin.

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