Darwinism <Tab/>Darwinism was the brainchild of a young medical student-turned clergyman named Charles Darwin, who was born in England in 1809. In the early 1800's his ideas about evolution, natural selection, how organisms adapt and variations in nature were seen as revolutionary, crazy theories. Creationism, the belief that man was created by God, and did not evolve from other creatures, was Darwinism's greatest rival. Funk and Wagnall's Standard College Dictionary as …showed first 75 words of 1536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1536 total…my ability; and we must acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his godlike intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system-with all these exalted powers-Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." (Thomas 133)