Darwin loved nature since he was a child, especially hunting and collecting minerals and animal and plant specimens. One day, in the forest outside London, a college student wandered by an old tree. Suddenly, he found insects crawling under the bark that was about to fall off, so he quickly peeled off the bark and found two strange beetles crawling forward quickly. The college student immediately drew a bow from left to right and grasped it in his hand, watching excitedly. Just then, another beetle jumped out of the bark, and the college students were caught off guard. They immediately put one beetle in their mouth and reached out to catch the third beetle. Looking at these strange beetles, college students simply couldn't put it down, just admiring the beetles in their hands and forgetting the one in their mouths. The beetle in the mouth can't stand it, so it releases a spicy venom, which stings the tongue of college students. He remembered the beetle in his mouth and spat it into his hand. Then, regardless of the pain in his mouth, he proudly walked to Cambridge University in the city. The college student who forgets at the sight of insects is Charlie Darwin. Later, people named it "Darwin" to commemorate the beetle he first discovered.

After graduating from college, he gave up his career as a priest and remained keen on natural science research. As a "naturalist", he participated in the round-the-world inspection of the warship Beagle organized by the British government at his own expense.

Everywhere Darwin went, he always made a serious investigation and study. During the investigation, Darwin thought about a question all day according to the change of species: how did the meaning of everything in the world come into being? Why are they always changing? What is the connection between them? These questions became more and more profound in his mind, which gradually made him doubt creationism and species invariance.

Darwin accumulated a lot of information during his five-year exploration around the world. After returning home, he sorted out these materials and went deep into practice. At the same time, he consulted a large number of books to find the basis for his own theory of biological evolution. 1842, he wrote the outline of the Origin of Species for the first time.

1859165438+1On October 3rd, Darwin's scientific masterpiece The Origin of Species, written after more than 20 years of research, was finally published. In this book, Darwin clearly put forward the viewpoint of "evolution", indicating that species are constantly changing, from low to high, from simple to complex.

The publication of this book, for the first time, established biology on a complete scientific basis, and overturned the "creationism" and the theory of species invariance with a brand-new idea of biological evolution. The Origin of Species is a masterpiece of Darwin's theory of evolution, which marks the formal establishment of the theory of evolution.

On the day when the new book was published, several bookstores on the streets of London were crowded with people and many readers who came to buy the new book. 1250 The first edition of the new book was snapped up on the same day.

As soon as this book with unique viewpoint and novel content was published, it immediately caused an uproar in Britain: some people were in high spirits and clapped their hands for joy; Some people become angry from embarrassment and fly into a rage; More people regard it as an anecdote and legend and spread it everywhere. A geologist and teacher at Darwin's Cambridge University wrote to Darwin and said, "When I read your book, I feel more pain than happiness ... some parts of this book make me laugh, while others make me sad." He even published an unsigned article in a magazine, satirizing Darwin's theory as an attempt to "make a strong rope out of a string of bubbles". An American geologist criticized Darwin's works as "practical jokes", and a group of church leaders hated Darwin's works even more in an attempt to organize anti-evolutionists to attack them. One of them wrote an anonymous letter threatening Darwin: "You are the most dangerous person in Britain!" " ""Down with Darwin! "Defaming Darwin's theory" blasphemes the Holy Spirit "violates" the sovereign power is endowed with justice "and is detrimental to human dignity.

On the contrary, progressive scholars represented by Huxley actively promoted and defended Darwinism. It is pointed out that evolution has opened people's ideological imprisonment, inspired and educated people to be liberated from the shackles of religious superstition.

Now, history has given the answer.