Charles Darwin received 4,000 write-in votes against a Georgia congressman who attacked the theory of evolution. In a September speech, Republican congressman Paul Broun, a physician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee, called evolution and the Big Bang Theory, "lies straight from the pit of hell." Since Broun was running unopposed, Jim Leebens-Mack, a biology professor at the University of Georgia started a write-in campaign for Darwin, the father of the theory of evolution. The votes for Darwin will not count since he was never certified as a write-in candidate but Leebens-Mack hopes that the results will encourage a strong candidate to oppose Broun in the next election. (Reuters)





