Charles Robert Darwin is considered one of the greatest scientific minds known to man. Darwin was born on February 17, 1809 in Shrewsbury, England. He was an inventor of many theories and scintific studies during the 1800's. He created the thought of natural selection and evolution into human minds across the world. He was the British naturalist who became famous because of his beliefs.
             Darwin went to school at Cambridge to study divinity and join the church. While there he discovered his interest in natural history and spent most of his time collecting beetles. At the age of 22 he applied to join an expedition going to travel around the world by ship. They set sail on the 27th of December 1831. During this time many people still believed god created the world. Darwin's way of thinking was different. When he was aboard the beagle he read Lyell's Principles of Geology that suggested that fossils found in the ground were actually evidence of animals that had lived hundreds of years ago. Lyell's argument was reinforced the thought of evolution into Darwin's mind. When Darwin returned to London his studies grew into several related theories: one, the thought the evolution did occur, two the evolutionary change was a gradual process, three the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called natural selection, and four the millions of species alive today arose from a single original life form through a branching process called specialization.
             Darwin's work had a tremendous impact on religious thoughts and ways. Many people opposed the idea of evolution because it told them that things in their religion were not true. Even though the world opposed his theories, Darwin continued his studies and even after his death writers still used his theories to support their ideas. Charles Darwin died in the year of 1882.
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