Video of the day -- Endless forms most beautiful
This song by the Finnish "symphonic metal" band Nightwish is -- most unusually for a modern popular song -- a tribute to Darwin's theory of evolution, inspired by the final paragraph of his immortal 1859 book On the Origin of Species (first edition):
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
posted by Infidel753 at 4:04 AM
2 Comments:
I like Nightwish still but they sounded better back when Tarja Turunen was the lead singer before she left.
I'm not really familiar with the band -- I just thought this was a great song and video.
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