Westminster Abbey

I knew nothing about Westminster Abbey before going. I knew it was supposed to be a beautiful cathedral with some buried people in it, but every cathedral we’ve seen has been beautiful and I think all of them have had people buried in them, typically old royals I’m unfamiliar with. You can imagine my surprise when I realized I was casually walking over the graves of some of the most famous scientific minds in human history, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and Stephon Hawking. Our tour guide Molly spoke of Darwin’s venture across the world on the ship The Beagle, where he collected bugs, birds, and other animals from different islands. Darwin compared their adaptations to one another which eventually led him to his theory of evolution which has since been widely accepted as scientific fact for all of earths species. I was surprised to see Darwin buried in a cathedral being that his theory provoked so much outrage among religious creationist, but Molly put so nicely in saying that just because some say we evolved from other species and some say we came from angels, does not mean there’s not room for both. Then there was Isaac Newton. Seeing Newtons grave was really bizarre to me. I know that he’s the father of Modern physics and invented calculous but to me to he feels unreal like some kind of folk hero. I just think back to that story about him sitting under an apple tree, seeing an apple fall, and him coming up with his theory of universal gravitation. I thought it was interesting that Newton, Darwin, and Hawking were all buried right next to each other just because they were scientists. It’s not like they were friends, they just had the same job. Imagine if you were really good at your job and then you were buried next to other people who were also good at that job before you. I’m a waiter, please don’t bury me next to my coworker Scott, he literally smokes crack. And that’s ok, I mean it’s not ok to smoke crack, crack is bad for you but so are the free drinks that he would pour for me after every shift. He was actually a pretty nice guy, sometimes I miss him. Maybe I could be buried next to Scott.