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Charles Darwin - School Essays

Charles Darwin

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was a man of incomprehensible genius. He proposed
theories that changed the views of the origin of mankind, as well as, the
beginning of life on earth and the continual evolution of advanced forms of
life. Other great scientists such as Galileo and Aristotle influenced many
of Darwin's theories and statements. With the publication of Darwin's
"Origin of Species" in 1859 and the subsequent acceptance of evolution by
natural selection, patterns in nature were recognized as the outcome of
common descent, not divine creation. Darwin wrote to his friend and
colleague Thomas Huxely: "The time will come, I believe, though I shall
not live to see it, when we shall have fairly true ...

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scholars in an attempt to stump Darwin)

Darwin in his "Origin of Species" published an answer to this
question in 1859. Darwin wrote:

"As many more individuals are produced than can possibly survive, there
must be in every case, a struggle for existence, either one individual with
another of the same species, or with individuals of distinct species, or
with physical conditions of life. Can it be thought improbable, seeing
that variations useful to man have undoubtedly occurred, that other
variations useful in some way to each being in the great and complex battle
of life, should sometimes occur in the course of a thousand generations?"

Darwin answered the baffling question in the form of another
question and hypothesis. His response to the question of diversification
complicated matters further as many more scholars came to support the
theory of probable existence (life forms simply just appearing - possibly
an act of God). Darwin responded to these claims against ...

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Added: 11/20/2007 06:45:06 PM
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