Ist November - All Species Day not All Saints Day

From David Bazley: in Newsline 09 November 2007
Hugh Davis suggests Darwin's Birthday February 12th for the non-believers festival. Well that's OK but even better would be November 1st because that's the day Darwin finally published the Origin of the Species in 1859. But Christians also call this historic day All Saints Day when they glorify mostly imaginary dead saints, known and unknown.

We should rename this day and call our festival All Species Day. Glorifying and celebrating the wonder of evolution when we remember all past species, known and unknown, from the microbe to the mammoth, which evolved and then died so that other species, including us, might live. But I have to declare an interest: November 1st is also my birthday -- but I'm no saint.