What Darwin Thought
-BACKGROUND: Though trained as a clergyman for the Church of England, Charles Darwin's interests were in the study of nature. A professor at Cambridge, John Stevens Henslow, recommended Darwin as Ship's Naturalist for a 5-year surveying voyage around the world. Upon boarding the H.M.S. Beagle in December 1831, Darwin received a gift from Captain Robert Fitzroy: Volume 1 of Charles Lyell's book, Principles of Geology. Darwin devoured Lyell's first volume and fully embraced its tenants of Uniformitarianism and Deep Time. Both conflicted with his ministerial training. By the end of the first 2-1/2 years of the Beagle's voyage, Darwin had also acquired the book's two remaining volumes, via the British Admiralty's Mail Packet Service to outposts and ports of call along the course of the Beagle's journey.
" [T]he river, though it has so little power in transporting even inconsiderable fragments, yet in the lapse of ages might produce by its gradual erosion an effect of which it is difficult to judge the amount." -C. Darwin Journal entry April 26, 1834, Voyage of the Beagle, P.127.
" [T]he river, though it has so little power in transporting even inconsiderable fragments, yet in the lapse of ages might produce by its gradual erosion an effect of which it is difficult to judge the amount." -C. Darwin Journal entry April 26, 1834, Voyage of the Beagle, P.127.
WHAT EVOLUTION Teaches
(Beware hand-waving, smoke and mirrors, and "historical narrative" story-tellings masquerading as SCIENCE.)
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