The college entrance examination is finally over, which school to apply for, which major? Is it science, or literature? If you can go to 985 and 211, then there is a high probability that there will be a bright future in this life. But in 19th-century Europe, if you wanted to have a good future, you could only go to one school and study one major.
That is theology, where the idea of "divine divine right" is deeply rooted. If you ask anyone on the street where they came from, you'll get the same answer, which god created.
In 1831, The Hound Captain Robert Fitzroy, a die-hard Catholic fan, was commissioned by the Queen of England to embark on a five-year global scientific expedition. There is only one purpose, to prove the existence of God, but also to prove the scientific nature of the biblical theory of genesis.
He was accompanied by a young man who had just graduated from seminary and, like Robert, was a staunch believer in the Bible, his name was Charles Darwin.
In the eyes of his family, Darwin was a child who caused headaches to almost everyone, and he did not do his job all day, either tinkering with bugs or studying flowers and plants. His father had tried to send him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine, hoping that he would earn himself a bowl of food, but he failed, and Darwin had no interest in medicine.
Later, his father stuffed him into the seminary of Cambridge University, but becoming a good missionary was still not Darwin's ideal. Despite his family's objections, he boarded Robert's Hound and set sail for a life-changing voyage. It was on this trip that Darwin punched those who believed in genesis theory in the face.
The Hound led the crowd on a journey to South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Cocos Island. Every time he went to a new place, Darwin would carefully study the local flora and fauna, and on this trip, he found dozens of creatures, as well as many huge animal fossils.
In the process of studying biology, Darwin had many questions in his mind, how big was God's Noah's Ark? How could it carry so many huge creatures to escape the flood? Isn't God merciful? So why did it make certain creatures go extinct, and how long did these animal fossils exist?
When the ship traveled to the Galapagos Islands, he was surprised to find that they were all sea turtles, living on different islands, and the patterns on the shells of the turtles were hugely different, and these islands were only tens of miles apart. Not only turtles, but also the birds of these islands are also very different.
This trip, far from proving the so-called genesis theory in the Bible, opened up another life for Darwin, making him a scientist who devoted himself to the front line of scientific research from an amateur in biology.
In October 1836, he returned to England and began to organize the various specimens and notes he had brought back. In November 1859, his first edition of On the Origin of Species was published. The door to the truth is slowly opened.
The view that "man evolved from animals" in the book is like a warhead, which shatters people's religious beliefs, and the first batch of 1250 copies of "The Origin of Species" was robbed by people in less than a day.
He also implicitly suggests in the book that humans are unusually related to other primates. When he observed the gorillas, he found that the mischievous appearance of the little orangutan was no different from his own "bear child", so Darwin believed that "there is no fundamental difference in the mental function of humans and advanced mammals", which is called "species continuity".
He put his son William and the gorilla together and observed for more than three decades, a long observation of his son's "black history", published at the age of 37, which has been called "one of the earliest examples of research in psychology".
From a troubled boy to a world-famous naturalist, Darwin's success depended on his love of science. Therefore, if you want to cultivate excellent scientists, you must start from the doll and let the children feel the charm of science.
The British writer Nicholas Davis is a big fan of Darwin, in order to make children fall in love with the natural sciences like Darwin, he wrote a set of "different science books", in which the animal section shows children the general process of animal evolution.
Why overnight, dinosaurs can not escape death, the reason for the fourth mass extinction, etc., can be described as a children's version of the "Origin of Species". Nicholas is committed to interpreting science with children's thinking and better stimulating children's interest in reading.
If you want to expand the depth of reading and increase the density of knowledge for children, take your children to read this set of books, and children will feel that learning is so interesting.
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