"The Catholic church has absolutely no view on 'Darwin's Theory of Evolution' or
             'Darwinism' what is commonly believed by the magistarium is that one should not
             necessarily take the Bible in a literal sense ..."
             -An excerpt from Robert Richard's
             The Meaning of Evolution.
             Charles Darwin, a British naturalist has revolutionized biological and genetic studies with
             his new idea of "Natural Selection." His theory on evolution, which held that a species had
             emerged from preexisting or "basic" forms. His liberal ideas in Natural History had aroused
             several disagreements among scientists and caused a division among them. In cognizance
             to Darwin's theory(ies) scientists today gives him the credit as being the first in all time to
             explain some of the disagreements between geologists. Some of these where how some
             rock layers were higher than others in some are but in other areas they were lower.
             Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England on February 12, 1809. He was the son
             of Robert Warren Darwin, a family doctor and of Susannah Wedgewood Darwin daughter
             of a porcelain manufacturer. His grandfather, infact, was the great English poet Erasmus
             Darwin. His early school training was at a small school house in Shrewsbury. After which
             his father put him into Edinburgh University in 1825 to 1827 for medical studies. Darwin
             showed no interest in being a physician after witnessing several major operations without
             anesthesia. He was then sent to be a pastor in the Church of England. He studied at Christ
             College at Cambridge University in 1828.
             He lost his interest in Holy order by the and bec...