I SWEAR THIS MAN NEEDS TO BE PUT IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL WHERE HE COULD OF MET SUSAN BOIL IF HE WAS STILL ALIVE

HAHAHAH JOKE
PEOPLE LEAVE SUSAN BOIL ALONE
BETCHES.

FFFFFFFFUUUUURRRRKK YOUR MOM.

He had no individual thought, he stole ideas of others;
Erasmus Darwin
Charles Lyell
Alfred Russel Wallace
Herbert Spencer
Samuel Butler

Charles lacked understanding and application of science.

He read his grandpa's work and stole it and his ideas and even copy cat opinion on slavery!

He is a Joke. ..

There are more important men in UK history and in theory of theories than this HACK.

However, Darwin and Fitzroy argued during the voyage - slavery was part of that argument - and at one point Darwin was actually banished from the Captain's table.

Fitzroy was a deeply religious man, and when Darwin did eventually publish his theories Fitzroy was appalled to learn that Darwin had begun developing them whilst aboard the Beagle. Fitzroy spoke out against Darwin to anyone who would listen and eventually, so tormented was he by what he felt he had done to the Church, he killed himself!

Fun fact: There is absolutely nothing like that in Origin. Feel free to, you know, actually read the book you're attacking if you don't believe me. You might actually learn something.

http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species -6th-edition/

Alex Fear,
Would recommend Origin. You'll need coffee too though. Lots of coffee

Interesting observation. I guess we shall never know the full reasons for his loss of faith. I guess it was personal (though not tragic) reasons for me too.

Interesting also is that it wasn't his scientific observations or study that made him lose his faith, it was personal events - tragedies.

Sort of reinforces the concept that science and religion are not incompatible (since he seemed to have no scientific problem with religion) and that it takes personal reasons to lose faith, not scientific...

ie. When presented with science and hard facts, a believer is more likely to reconcile those to their faith than to lose it. But when faced with the loss of a loved one, they question everything they believe.

Not saying religion is good or bad or whatever, but a loss of faith, especailly spurred by such a tradgedy like his daughter's death... no so fun IMHO.

That's why airplanes fly and satelites orbit and we get to have this conversation over the internet. No other systematic body of human knowledge has ever proved so powerful both at explanation and technological creation.

A common argument is that the leading scientific minds of time x believed wrong thing y. Therefore, leading scientists today are wrong about z. (Sometimes one boldly adds the non sequitur corrolary: therefore my religious belief abc is true.)

Darwin might've believed all kinds of things we think are quite incorrect now, including key facts about how evolution and speciation occur. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the plausibility of evolution as it currently stands. Darwin could've believed in unicorns or eugenics. It's irrelevant.