If religious faith is bolstered by an image of the Virgin Mary in a brain scan, the face of Jesus on a seat cushion, taco shell or a grilled cheese sandwich, then the face of Charles Darwin on a fossil fish should do the same thing for the theory of evolution.

Take a look at this:

See ol’  Chuck yet?  If not, here’s a closer look at what’s left of the head on the one at right, fully un-retouched and non-photoshopped.  I’ve shifted the piece a little clockwise so the great man sits more on the vertical.

Those beady, deep-set eyes, the curvy mouth line,  that full-flowing beard – it’s all there top right!

Now, since this is my last post for about a month, I’m going to try something new: a poll.

PS: This piece has been sitting on a shelf in our bedroom for about a dozen years.  We picked it up at a roadside stand overlooking the badlands at Drumheller, Alberta.  That’s where you’ll find the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, perhaps the best collection of dinosaur bones you’ll ever see in one spot.  The Charles Darwin church it isn’t, but close.