... Within Galapagos he reached his theory of evolution. Darwin's grandfather also had an interest in evolution. Charles Darwin was very set in his creationist ideas however and only became convinced of the opposite by his own notes. He did not publish however until other ideas were published about natural selection. His most important work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published in 1859. ... In this work he explains that there is a great quantity of every species so ... kissing had to stop?" (Tennyson 14.42) Robert Browning is more obviously influenced by Dar...

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... through the process of natural selection. In other words, there is no intelligent designer or Creator. The origin of human beings is a random, unplanned event that serves no special purpose other than to fill a spot in the ecological scheme of things. Thus, the human species is no more valuable than any other species on the earth. ... ...life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. These are Darwin's words on the meaning of life. He believed that there was no main purpose for existing other than to continue to transferring DNA down the ......

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