The 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth is being celebrated this year. Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution. Charles Darwin hereby speaks for himself: "I may here also confess that as a little boy I was much given to inventing deliberate falsehoods, and this was always done for the sake of causing excitement." References: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With original omissions restored. Edited by Nora Barlow. Page 23. The following link is herein attached as documentary evidence: http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F1497&pageseq=1 "I love fools' experiments. I am always making them ." References: John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. The following link is herein attached as documentary evidence: http://www.bartleby.com/100/450.5.html