Darwin Believes example essay topic

By: chris dent One day, I was walking in the forest, yearning for just something that will nourish my body. I had not eaten for days, and in order to survive, I needed food. All of a sudden, I came upon a block of bread laying ten feet in front of me. Running towards it, I was confronted by another man twice my size. He was definitely more than I. Being the smaller man, I lost out on my nourishment and on my survival.

I lost my "struggle for existence". Throughout this paper, I will expand on why this short story, has to do with a man by the name of Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a failed medical school student, who finally received his B.A. degree in Biology. His schooling was finished up at Cambridge. If anyone is at all familiar with Darwin, they know his beliefs are pretty much the exact opposite of the Christian Theology. What strikes me, as strange, is that Darwin, when younger, was a Clergyman at the Church of England.

As I will elaborate later on in this paper, he went from a religious clergyman, to questioning his beliefs, to even stating some of the most non-religious Theories known to man. As an unpaid Naturalist, he traveled on the H.M.S. Beagle, across the coastline of South America. While being dropped off and left on the Galapagos Islands for a number of days, he began to watch the species on the Island. To sum it up, He watched, for many days, Nature run its course. Throughout this time, and even after, he started to develop ideas about how he thought species survived. How they do survive, and how they should survive.

This has to do with one of his greatest theories of all, Natural Selection. As I explained earlier about "the survival for existence", Darwin developed a theory that explained how the most fit, biggest, and better of all the species have they opportunity to live on and survive. The weak, and less fortunate are able to compete for food, or other survival musts. He coined these thoughts along with a fellow Naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace actually gathered his evidence in Indonesia. This theory in which these two men established has been critiqued for years.

Should that really be the only way? Should we as human beings live in a "Survival of the Fittest" society? Thomas Henry Huxley, along with numerous others, not only disagrees with this belief, but also has other ideas to protect the weaker of the species. He believes in equality of all. Not, whoever is bigger than the other, wins. It is more of a Christian, religious philosophy, and to tell the complete truth, I agree 100% with Huxley.

Along with this theory, there are many others in which Darwin believes. For instance, he doesn't have views of creation, he has views of his term: evolution. We were not created by a higher being, but have evolved from something that was already alive. An ape, for instance, is what he said I came from. I was not molded, shaped and created by my god, in whom I believe in, however, I was evolved from an actual monkey.

Being religious, I have a tough time believing any of these theories. I am a Christian, and not only do I believe in a higher being watching over us, but I believe in god. My views differ so much from Darwin's, that I had a tough time reading about him. I tend to lean towards T.H. Huxley. Equality, in terms of survival is something that is very important to me. Just because I am 100 pounds smaller than someone else, should not hinder me in anyway of surviving and receiving nourishment, and other "musts" my body has to have.

I also believe in creation. My lord in the sky knew who I was, what and who I would become, and created me into something he wanted me to be. I have an incredibly tough time believing my ancestors were hairy, aphonic monkeys running around with no ideas about life, or anything for that matter. Throughout the last week of studying and reading about Charles Darwin, I did find I disagree with him tremendously about almost every view he has.

I did however learn a lot. He was a very interesting man. Not one that I agree with, but one that kept me thinking. He did get me thinking about what I truly believe in. Where I came from, How I got here, and even how I am living out my life. I on the other hand, unlike Darwin, am not going to question my beliefs, and turn away from his religious beliefs.

I think Charles Darwin was very intriguing to study, but also false in so many of his ways. Word Count: 807.