Comments on: 10 Fun Facts About Charles Darwin

By: Laura Ellen

Laura Ellen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:36:37 +0000

I find it unfortunate how people accuse solely Darwin of “stealing” ideas.
Science is based on theories,
which are continuously updated and disproved.
Anyways.
Such an intriguing individual. I have a twenty minute presentation to prepare and this has some great, well, “Fun Facts”.
Thanks Neatorama!

By: ZZZZZZ??????....

ZZZZZZ??????.... — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:02:38 +0000

eww y would u do tht marry ur cousin ewwww yo tht is sick i mean y would u do tht was he like homeless or something and he was soooo hungry tht he ate a owl and was he like loney is tht y he married his cousin sick!!!!!!!
y would u do tht and for those who thinks tht this guy is kool u must b a drugy or something y would u eat a owl and marry ur cousin u tht is nasty go get a life freaks!!!!;l

By: peace

peace — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:45:54 +0000

what the heck a owl??????? y would u eat a owl ewwwww
boring??????ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ………

By: ANAxBANANA

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By: ANAxBANANA

ANAxBANANA — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:06:21 +0000

i have to do a project about him :/ this sucks

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suck my dick — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:21:41 +0000

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By: alexandria

alexandria — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:44:34 +0000

Are all of these facts even true, Christian the one who said ‘Get a girlfriend’ and bye you saying ‘get some’ you mean Have some sex dont you?! Well why dont you take your own self comments into your own mind and ‘get a girlfirnd’ and ‘have some’ sex. by the way how old are you?? please comment back.
your truley
Alexandria
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By: christian

christian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:07:55 +0000

and a girlfriend and get some if you know what i mean

By: christian

christian — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:06:54 +0000

get a life nerds

By: Pretty Princess

Pretty Princess — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:38:49 +0000

Heyy, idk wat to put here im just bored so whatever:]

By: emokidd420

emokidd420 — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:49:27 +0000

wat the fuck who eats an owl

By: AWesomeMan

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By: lusy

lusy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:38:15 +0000

Wow how yak to eat an oul ?!?!?!?!!!!

By: shade

shade — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:10:37 +0000

creationist go get an education please…u cant compare charles darwin, a simple scientist, to hitler, columbine shooters, and for what ever reason…the japanese? The Scopes Monkey trial ended a long time ago!

By: shade

shade — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:01:39 +0000

sleepy eat shit and die

By: GDOG

GDOG — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:28:06 +0000

AMEN BROTHER

By: Sleepy

Sleepy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:02:42 +0000

Darwins today is called a “great scientist” when all he did was 1. get possessed by the Devil himself 2. Graduate from Bible College 3. Collect bugs on the Beagle 4. Shoot Birds and collect beaks (notice some difference in beak sizes and shapes 5. write a book for 20 years 6. CREATE THE BEST EXCUSE EVER TO ELIMINATE GOD. Number 6 = the DEVILS objective. And boy has it worked well. No this comment is probably too deep for most of you until you really study out this topic. But think about it. Hitler used evolution thinking, the Japanese used evolution thinking, the Columbine shooter used evolution thinking. They all claimed they were the higher “race” and was doing humanity a favor. A T-shirt on one of the shooters said “Natural Selection”

Think about it… Darwin destroyed faith in God and the creation and led the way for millions to be led to hell. And we make top 10 fun fact list about this guy.

Shame.

By: subsequently

subsequently — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:01:35 +0000

did u reely eat a racoon

By: Scotty Jones

Scotty Jones — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:50:58 +0000

you guys that think darwins great and has helped explane evalution should really do some research of your own. your taught lies in school and thats not great. the facts are darwin dident think up alot of what he published, and was lost and really disturbed. he hasent been potrayed truthfully, and if he had the tools we have today he wouldmost likly re-nig on the whole origin of species. its really to bad that hes helped brainwash genarations of people with opions of a not so stable man. you should take everything you hear with a grain of salt before you study it for your self.

By: courtney

courtney — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:05:21 +0000

Hello i am fasanated with history and sience and when we did about him in y6 which a have just leaft 4 secondary school.Charles Darwin tells us about the plants and animals he discoved on aboad the begale.

By: blank150

blank150 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:45:18 +0000

I didn’t realize he was such an odd man… This helped for a school assignment.

By: poopie

poopie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:41:16 +0000

u guys are stupid fuck heads go jack off!!!!

By: smellymelly

smellymelly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:19:28 +0000

HE ATE AN OWL

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.

By: smellymelly

smellymelly — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:17:35 +0000

OMG HE MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN THATS SO GROSS!

By: sjdfsdds

sjdfsdds — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:58:14 +0000

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By: sjdfsdds

sjdfsdds — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:57:40 +0000

very good

By: bobby jo

bobby jo — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:32:20 +0000

this was a pretty good article. it helped me with an assignment at school.

By: neice williams

neice williams — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:49:20 +0000

dat wat up her married his 1 cuzo

By: Sophie

Sophie — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:52:51 +0000

What is he on aboutwhat a nerd who would bover to work that out

By: imogen

imogen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:37:16 +0000

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By: imo

imo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:35:52 +0000

charles darwin was a very old man who is dead dead !!! hehe oh well he was gunna pop anyway so hehehehehehehehe !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

By: imo

imo — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:33:44 +0000

he was gay and is a looser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: The gangsta

The gangsta — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:07:11 +0000

shut up nerds

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:53:24 +0000

Darwin was a Loser.

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.

By: Jessie williams

Jessie williams — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:06:54 +0000

who eats owl,thats sad and weird. hes weird

By: chris

chris — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:51:14 +0000

Thankyou Darwin, so we can totally ignore the ideas of ‘intelligent design’.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:05:33 +0000

You missed out the fact that not only had the previous Captain of the Beagle committed suicide, but so had an uncle of Fitzroy’s – Castlereagh. Fitzroy employed Darwin not, initially, as the Beagle’s naturalist, but as a companion for himself to keep him sane. He thought madness could be in his blood.

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!

By: wintermute

wintermute — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:13:11 +0000

Floyd: “They left out the interesting fact that Darwin published in the origin of species that white males where the peak of evolution of man and the darker your skin the more inferior you are to white men”

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/

By: EmmaGammon

EmmaGammon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:06:25 +0000

Great, I no longer feel bad about playing two games of backgammon a day (on a weak day, of course).

By: Moodindigo

Moodindigo — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:08:19 +0000

Homeschooled troll fails.

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.

By: Alex Fear

Alex Fear — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:29:36 +0000

Good facts, makes me want to read Origin of the Species even more now.

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.

By: Leonardo Tadei

Leonardo Tadei — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:33:31 +0000

…y murió muy probablemente del mal de Chagas-Mazza por la picadura de un vinchuca en Argentina.

By: Clyde Bxter

Clyde Bxter — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:11:09 +0000

Another little known fact about Darwin is that he was an avid “snuffer.” He was addicted to snuff, a finely ground tobacco product that is taken in pinches and sniffed up the nose. To avoid his wife’s complaints about his habit, He would often, while in his study, send his daughter, Annie, downstairs to sneak him up a pinch of snuff.

By: Video Game Dork

Video Game Dork — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:48:45 +0000

It’s kind of funky that “How someone lost faith in their religion” is a ‘Fun Fact!’ o.O

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.

By: earbox

earbox — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:29:24 +0000

Not Marry: “She’s not Rachem.”

By: edc

edc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:17:13 +0000

failtroll has failed to troll.

By: Nic M.

Nic M. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:40:00 +0000

The thing about science, Floyd, is that unlike many other bodies of knowledge it is not necessarily beholden to the authoritative opinions of its elders. It is a fallible, revisable enterprise that works specifically *because* the inductive process is in itself never certain. That’s how improvements sneak in.

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.

By: Grant Brady

Grant Brady — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:28:48 +0000

As far as #2 goes, it wasn’t just that he couldn’t stand blood, but one of his first medical experiences was witnessing a surgery preformed on a young boy. This was several decades before anesthetics so the boy was wide awake, screaming and writhing as the doctors cut into him. It would turn most people off from being a doctor.

By: Rocky Rook

Rocky Rook — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:12:59 +0000

Very fascinating! My wife is better than a dog too.

By: Greengirl

Greengirl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:56:07 +0000

Survival of the fittest refers to social darwinism, a sort of justified racism.

Homeschoolednproud, he was a great man.