Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern LifeOn a memorable day in human history, February 12, 1809, two babies were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. It was a time of backward seeming notions, when almost everyone still accepted the biblical account of creation as the literal truth and authoritarianism as the most natural and viable social order. But by the time both men died, the world had changed: ordinary