Charles Robert Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin was born
February 12, 1809 in shrewsbury, Shropshire England to Robert and Susannah
Darwin. His mother died when he was eight. He was the 5th or 6th
Darwin Children. He was sent off to boarding school in shrewsbury where he was
a mediocre student at best. He was from a doctor’s family. Charles was
reluctant to share his findings and ideas about evolution. He presented the
idea of evolution and natural selection. He was the first to publish a
mechanism for how evolution happened.
Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution
According to Charles Darwin theory
of evolution is all the life is related and has descended from a common
ancestor. The birds and the bananas the fishes and the flowers all related.
This theory presumes the development of life from non life and stresses a
purely naturalistic.
Quotes of Charles Darwin.
“A grain in the balance will determine which
individual shall live and which shall die which variety or species shall
increase in number and which shall decrease or finally become extinct”
“I fully subscribe to the judgment of those writers
who maintain that of all differences between man and the lower animal, the
moral sense of conscience is by far the most important. It is the most Nobel of
all attributes of man”
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and
omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express
intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars”
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
“Nor must we overlook the probability of the
constant inculcation in a belief in God on the minds of children producing so
strong and perhaps an inherited effect on their brains not fully developed,
that would be as difficult for them to throw off their belief in God, as for
the monkey to throw off its instinctive fear and hatred of a snake”
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its
several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one:
and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of
gravity, from most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being,
evolved”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than
does knowledge: it is those who know much, who so positively assert that this
or that problem will never be solved by science”
“ A fair result can be obtained only by fully
stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question
and this here impossible”
