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Charles Darwin A DISGRACE!

July 16th 2008 10:30
young Charles Darwin
When Charles Darwin was growing up he was considered by his teachers to be quite a disgrace.

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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Comment by Morgan Bell

July 17th 2008 04:17
isnt it amazing how some of the best minds of our time didnt do well at school . . . i guess when you are thinking outside the square it clashes with the conformity of the classroom!
great info!

Comment by Johnny Come Lately

July 17th 2008 04:40
it just goes to show that intelligence and education don't necessarily mean the same thing.

Comment by Jessicca

July 17th 2008 06:24
Never under estimate a person's future with academics, I'd say!

Comment by Wynona Lavota

July 17th 2008 08:28
I figure if someone has a passion for something get out of their way- no need to stifle them with tradition and convention.

Comment by Mountain Fog

July 17th 2008 12:54
hmmm.. maybe his tardiness in study explains his 'missing link'???

If he had attended to his studies, he might have found it!! tee hee!!!

cheers

fog

Comment by WHAT the blarney?

July 25th 2008 18:55
Umm......yes, Darwin was intelligent......intelligent enough and somewhat humble enough to BACK out of the natural selection theory......

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......
up out ~
jen

Comment by Anonymous

January 15th 2009 18:23
rubish?

Comment by Anonymous

January 15th 2009 18:23
rubish?

Comment by Anonymous

February 23rd 2009 15:20
did u know he was incredibly well endowed

Comment by Anonymous

February 23rd 2009 15:22
did u know that he was known for his beastiality

Comment by Anonymous

February 23rd 2009 15:24
james forde is really cool cooler than all you guys

Comment by Morgan Bell

February 23rd 2009 15:36
here is the entire quotation in context:

"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. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei ["the voice of the people = the voice of God "], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory."

Comment by Mountain Fog

February 26th 2009 04:53
Well said Darwin old boy...however...the link that be missed is still missing...

I know evolution happens, of course, but I am not sure that it has been entirely natural.

We were taught at school, for instance, that Africans developed black skin in order to cope with where they lived, the harsh sunlight, and that other races formed due to their locale also, such as the Asian peoples, the South Americans and American Indians, etc etc.

One odd point though, if you take that concept as true, then the latitude your race grew up in must surely be a major influence?

If so, then why are there black, golden, brown and white peoples at the same latitudes?

There definitely is a missing link, hopefully, in due time, we will learn to see/find the real truth, whatever that may be?

Comment by Morgan Bell

February 26th 2009 08:41
hi Fog,

i dont know the whole answer, but i think race evolution would probably be affected by local environmental conditions as well as latitude . . . like altitude, rainfall, wind, humidity, temperature, direct sunlight, how densely vegetated the area is, the variety of plants and animals available for the food which made up their diet and hunting/gathering habits, etc

and i guess it is hard to know how much migration occured before the first fossils were discovered

Comment by Anonymous

November 3rd 2009 11:51
did you know that darwin gained his intelligence by eating an intelligent owl, before consuming this owl, it said to him.

"you know charles... we evolved"

btw.... he had smelly feet

P.S charles darwin was a scientologist..... dont believe me? PROVE IT!!!!!!!!

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