Darwin

Darwin Darwin’s Different Directions From the very beginning of Charles Darwin’s attempt to make a career decision, another path always seemed more appropriate. He began as a medical student at Cambridge and soon afterward, re-routed towards the seminary. However, in his quest to become a clergyman, Darwin faced further uncertainties. One may wonder how an aspiring priest became one of the most prominent figures in all of scientific history. The dominant belief of Darwin’s era, the 1800’s, fixated upon the notion that everything in existence was divinely created in its perfect form by God. This was a time when church, state, and science were all in the same. So why did Darwin, a man of God, ponder facts that were thought beyond our ability to prove, the facts that there may have been a biological reason for nature to make adaptations at the will of nature itself, and not by a divine being' In 1832, Charles Darwin boarded the H.M.S. Beagle, for a five year voyage, as the gentleman companion of the vessel’s captain, Captain Fitzroy. This voyage would prove to be the primary turning point of Darwin’s life along with his beliefs of life itself. On board, Darwin became the default naturalist darwin, darwin’s, different, god, time, charles, theory, life, found, evolution, very, same, over, divine, captain, birds, point, one, natural, make, islands, history, fitzroy, earth, decision, changes, animals, yet, within, voyage, species, small, selection, patterns, origin, nature