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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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great info!
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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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"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
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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?
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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
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"you know charles... we evolved"
btw.... he had smelly feet
P.S charles darwin was a scientologist..... dont believe me? PROVE IT!!!!!!!!