Thoughts on February 12

Today is Lincoln's 200th birthday and exactly 100 years since the creation of the NAACP. It is more than 150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Ammendment (I note that slaves were emancipated in Maryland, where I live, not by the Emancipation Proclamation but by a subsequent state constitution that went into effect in November 1964.)

Last year the majority of the white voters in the former slave states of the Confederacy voted against Barack Obama. Perhaps owning slaves reduced their intelligence. Perhaps Lamarck was right and acquired foolishness is passed down from one generation to the next.

Today is also Charles Darwin's birthday and it is 150 years from the publication of The Origin of Species. Today only 51 percent of American adults believe in evolution.

World Population Distribution by Region, 1800–2050

Source: United Nations Population Division via Population Reference Bureau

The graph above shows that the world's human population is becoming more black and brown and less white. How do people who do not believe in evolution explain that fact?