# Who had a bigger impact on world history:  Abraham Lincoln or Charles Darwin?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 12, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-had-a-bigger-impact-on-world-history-abraham-lincoln-or-charles-darwin/485543 "2009-02-12T16:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-had-a-bigger-impact-on-world-history-abraham-lincoln-or-charles-darwin/485543/1 "2009-02-12T16:10:36Z")

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[Recent thread on the same subject, as a reference.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=504229)

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-had-a-bigger-impact-on-world-history-abraham-lincoln-or-charles-darwin/485543/2 "2009-02-12T16:21:27Z")

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:smack: Sorry, Sampiro.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-had-a-bigger-impact-on-world-history-abraham-lincoln-or-charles-darwin/485543/3 "2009-02-12T16:52:32Z")

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I’ll combine the threads if you like.

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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-had-a-bigger-impact-on-world-history-abraham-lincoln-or-charles-darwin/485543/4 "2009-02-12T18:41:24Z")

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Sounds good to me…there were two interesting opposing viewpoints here, and I’d hate to lose that discussion because of my lack of homework.