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Charles Robert Darwin Faith Blankenship
In the small town of Shrewsbury, Shrophire in England, on February 18, 1809, the Darwin family gave a warm welcome to the new addition to the family, Charles Robert Darwin. The Darwin family was very religious (just like about every living human at that day and age) but was completely open to ideas on how living things came to be. Darwin’s father, Robert Darwin, was a medical doctor and his two grandfathers were prominent abolitionists, so needless to say, Darwin was born into a wealthy family. Darwin wasn’t the best student in the world. He never did much of the school work, and when he did, he didn’t make good grades. In Darwin’s autobiography, he wrote: “Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind…the school as a means of education to me was simply blank.” (Charles Darwin & Evolution). Once Darwin was able to go to college, he planned on going to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He ended up changing his mind due to his father encouraging him to do so. Darwin then ended …show more content…
He became worried and realized it might have been caused by him marrying his first cousin, Emma Darwin. So with this thought in mind, Darwin wrote a warning about it. Darwin strengthened his evolution theory with his “Survival of the Fittest” that included the famous ‘Darwin’s Finches’ in 1869. In February of 1871, Darwin published a book called The Descent Man. In his book, he presented an unequivocal amount of human evolution. This caused the Christians to have another challenge towards their orthodoxy. The Victorians still didn’t accept the idea that they shared an ancestor with apes. Some people did, they then called themselves “Darwinists”. Because of congestive heart failure, Charles Robert Darwin died on April 19, 1882. He was surrounded by his wife and loving friends when he passed. Darwin was buried at Westminster
In the small town of Shrewsbury, Shrophire in England, on February 18, 1809, the Darwin family gave a warm welcome to the new addition to the family, Charles Robert Darwin. The Darwin family was very religious (just like about every living human at that day and age) but was completely open to ideas on how living things came to be. Darwin’s father, Robert Darwin, was a medical doctor and his two grandfathers were prominent abolitionists, so needless to say, Darwin was born into a wealthy family. Darwin wasn’t the best student in the world. He never did much of the school work, and when he did, he didn’t make good grades. In Darwin’s autobiography, he wrote: “Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind…the school as a means of education to me was simply blank.” (Charles Darwin & Evolution). Once Darwin was able to go to college, he planned on going to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He ended up changing his mind due to his father encouraging him to do so. Darwin then ended …show more content…
He became worried and realized it might have been caused by him marrying his first cousin, Emma Darwin. So with this thought in mind, Darwin wrote a warning about it. Darwin strengthened his evolution theory with his “Survival of the Fittest” that included the famous ‘Darwin’s Finches’ in 1869. In February of 1871, Darwin published a book called The Descent Man. In his book, he presented an unequivocal amount of human evolution. This caused the Christians to have another challenge towards their orthodoxy. The Victorians still didn’t accept the idea that they shared an ancestor with apes. Some people did, they then called themselves “Darwinists”. Because of congestive heart failure, Charles Robert Darwin died on April 19, 1882. He was surrounded by his wife and loving friends when he passed. Darwin was buried at Westminster