We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Queen to hold a service of commemoration for the life and work of Charles Robert Darwin at Westminster Abbey to mark the 200th anniversary his birth, on the 12th of February 2009. More details

Submitted by Rupert Young – Deadline to sign up by: 30th June 2009 – Signatures: 101

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Darwin was undoubtedly one of this country’s greatest scientists and one of the world’s most significant thinkers, and his work has given humanity profound insight into our origins and elemental nature. Those insights and their scientific basis take an important place in the psyche of many rationalist, and religious, people in the United Kingdom. As the established church, of which Westminster Abbey is a part, the Church of England has a responsibility to cater to the ‘spiritual’ needs of all people irrespective of the nature of their beliefs, or non-belief. As such Darwin deserves to be commemorated at a national level, and what better place than Westminster Abbey, not only the focus of commemorations of national importance but the place where Darwin is buried.

This petition was submitted to the 10 Downing St petition website, but was rejected. Read the correspondence with the Government objecting to the reasons for the rejection, and the original request to Westminster Abbey.

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