Today is Charles Darwin's 200th birthday!

It's time to put on your party hat and bust a move in honor of the guy who laid the foundation for our modern understanding of how we got here.

Today, we celebrate the mad skills of a 19th century Victorian who laid down a revolutionary scientific beat that is still tearing it up. How many old British dudes do you know who did that?

This party is gonna be straight crack-a-lackin!

I know, I know...you're probably thinking, "Is this dude trippin'? What's he so stoked about?"

I totally get that the latest Gallup Poll shows that only 4 out of 10 Americans think the organizing principle of modern Biology is mad chill. Those digits look like an epic fail.

Before you get all up in my grill, just know that, as a high school Biology teacher, I ain't sweatin' it. The 39% of Americans who are chill with evolution are a much larger (and apparently smarter) group than the 25% who still think evolution is whack. Fo shizzle.

And, among 18-34 year olds (that includes me, yo), the evolution acceptance level is up to 49%! That's aight with me.

We're slowly reaching the younger generation. Heck, it's only been 150 years since Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In geologic time, that's just a blink of an eye!

You feel me?

So, as you go about your day today, don't forget to give a shout out to the venerable Chuck D.

His daughter thought he was pretty fly: