The National Secular Society recently ran a competition to write a Secular Thought for the Day in the style of BBC Radio 4's stubbornly unsecular Thought for the Day.
I've just posted my entry on my personal website. It didn't win, but Charles Darwin gets a mention, so you might want to check it out.
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“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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Off topic but did you notice the winner of the Guardian Student film competiton - http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/mar/21/student-film-competition-winner-announced - was about evolution.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/video/2013/mar/21/biology-evolution-student-film-video
Yes, I did. Thanks for reminding me, though, as I meant to link to it.