The World of Great Thinkers

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The world of Charles Darwin is a very complex one. Filled with parables and mysteries, this man has captivated the ideas and hearts of nations of people worldwide. I chose to research Darwin because his proposals of evolution have intrigued my mind for quite sometime. Not that I struggle with the idea of creation vs. evolution, but the idea of how through time our genes would actually succumb to our environment, so that in the end we are only a stronger and better fit creation.

The year is now 1831, and we see a young man (age 22) that is soon to depart on a vessel known as the Beagle set to travel around the world. We are in a time when titles are held high, and the church has nearly the power of that of the crown. The church's power was not of one to be trifled with. Darwinism would later add the clergy to one of its enemies after denying the idea of a divine creation. England at that time had accepted the ideas of Christ and the Bible, and basically it was crazy to attempt to challenge their thoughts and ideas.

Our young man slowly trudges his way down the cobblestone paths that make up England's streets. Peasants crowd his way as he attempts to make his way to the ship. As

On February 12, 1809 Charles Darwin was brought into this world. The open arms of Robert Waring Darwin were quite pleased to see another son born. The mother, Susannah Darwin was also very happy as she viewed for the first time her new baby boy. Charles also had one older brother and three older sisters awaiting him. Later another Darwin girl would be born to the family. It was a happy family that did get along quite well or at least as well as any family could. Darwin came from a long line of scientists. His father was a scientist, and that would eventually be the path for Darwin's older brother and himself. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin had written scientific books that were successful in that time. (The Botanic Garden and Zoonomia) Like Darwin, his grandfather would also study the life of plants and animals.

"As more individuals of each species are born that can possibly survive, and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form." -Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species [Stavrionos, Pg. 474]

The point of walking you through some of the streets of England, with this mysterious young Darwin, is to show the life style of the English. You must remember what type of a world this is at the time of Darwin's discoveries. It is a world where science is just starting to be accepted because of the advances the Sir Isaac Newton had discovered and yet still favored the clergy. Darwin was starting to open the eyes of the world to something that was quite different than what they blindly believed. It took some time for the world to accept just a few of Darwin's basic principle ideas, but at the same time, some parts of the world still haven't.

This is Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. It is the basic concept behind evolution. It is basically saying that if a species will not change and evolve over time to fit the needs of the environment that it is originally born into, it will eventually die and no longer propagate. Natural Selection means:

His father furious with the idea that his son would not practice medicine then decided for him that he was to be a clergyman. Which meant that at nineteen, Charles was enrolled at Christ's College: Cambridge, the Gateway. Darwin hated his time here equally to the love that he shared for Edinburgh.

Darwin refused to give up on his ideas and t

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