MelissaA
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Charles Darwin A DISGRACE!
July 16th 2008 10:30
His school reports made mention of the fact that he cared little for study and only for shooting, riding and beetle collecting.
In fact his own father also expected that he would come to nothing much in the long run, signing him up to join the clergy at Christ's College in Cambridge where he was introduced to the Reverend John Stevens Henslow, Professor of Botany.
In becoming a student of Henslow's biology course, Henslow sent a letter recommending Darwin as a suitable naturalist for the unpaid position of gentleman’s companion to Robert FitzRoy, captain of the HMS Beagle, which was about to leave on an expedition.
Darwin's father objected to the planned two-year voyage, regarding it as a waste of time, but was persuaded by his brother-in-law to allow him to go.
The Beagle survey ended up taking five years and led to Darwin proposing the theory of Natural Selection, writing the infamous 'On the Origin of Species'.
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If he had attended to his studies, he might have found it!! tee hee!!!
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Commented by Charles Darwin himself, he said, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
Yes, he's intelligent....just as Einstein said "we know 1% of what there is to know"
To know much is to know that you know very little......
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