Charles Darwin Born, Father of Darwinism

Darwin’s work during the century was most disputed by the Church, because it excluded God from man’s evolution.

The scientist Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, on February 12, 1809. He is the father of the modern theory of evolution and the development of living things via natural selection.

He was born in a wealthy family, and after going to an elite school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh, and was thrown out of it in 1827. He then enrolled into Cambridge, with the intent of becoming an Anglican priest. He did not achieve that, but in 1836, after returning to England from his travelling, during which he observed geological and biological creations from all around the planet, he released his notes “transmutation of species”, and then two years later he compiled the draft of the “On The Origin of Species” which includes evolution via natural selection, after comparing his research with all the other relevant authors.

On the Origin of Species

His masterpiece “On the Origin of Species”, was published in 1859, and the book sold out as soon as it hit the bookstore shelves. Darwin spent 22 years preparing his book, and it faced a lot of criticism.

Some biologists resented the fact that his theory was unable to be proven, others were against the idea of the development of various species from just one. However, the those who moist strongly opposed the theory of evolution of man from primates were not scientists, but the church.

The Church resented that Darwin totally excluded God from the creation of man, and for lowering man down to the level of an animal. Man was, claims Darwin, developed from a monkey via natural selection and evolution, and was not created, like the bible says, by divine intervention.