Did Charles Darwin Have a Degree In Biology?

[Viktor]

NO.


One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He was 20 years old. Darwin graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology.Sep 24, 2008

 

[Seymour Flops]

NO.


One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He was 20 years old. Darwin graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology.Sep 24, 2008

Very appropriate for the central figure of a new religion.

 

[rightwinger]

Darwin wrote the book on Biology

 

[Wyatt earp]

Get a time machine and present the evidence in court

 

[Hollie]

Very appropriate for the central figure of a new religion.

It's obvious why the hyper-religious are so angry.

 

[jwoodie]

NO.


One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He was 20 years old. Darwin graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology.Sep 24, 2008

You are not supposed to bring that up! The poor guy couldn't discern a new species from an adaptation if it flew up his nose. Like heliocentrism, gradual evolution was a nice theory until the pieces didn't quite fit.

 

[Hollie]

NO.


One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He was 20 years old. Darwin graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology.Sep 24, 2008

His theory, did, however become among the best documented, most thoroughly tested and confirmed theories in science.

We still have nothing from the hyper-religious of their General Theory of Supernatural Creation.

Biological and Cosmological Evolution Adopted in Kansas Education Standards

www.aip.org

"Students will understand the major concepts of the theory of biological evolution," with one of the "indicators" being "That the theory of evolution is both the history of descent, with modification of different lineages of organisms from common ancestors, and the ongoing adaption of organisms to environmental challenges and changes.

 

[abu afak]

NO.


One hundred and eighty years ago, Charles Darwin enrolled in Christ's College, University of Cambridge after a disastrous year studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He was 20 years old. Darwin graduated in 1831 with a degree in theology.Sep 24, 2008

LINK?
(Withheld info No doubt within. Viktor is a DISHONEST Creationist, like most)

Wiki: Darwin
"...Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice Doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before going to the University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus in October 1825. Darwin found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so he neglected his studies. He learned taxidermy in around 40 daily hour-long sessions from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South American rainforest.[28]

In Darwin's second year at the university, he joined the Plinian Society, a student Natural-history group featuring lively debates in which radical democratic students with materialistic views challenged orthodox religious concepts of science.[29]
He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth, and on 27 March 1827 presented at the Plinian his own discovery that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.
One day, Grant praised Lamarck's evolutionary ideas. Darwin was astonished by Grant's audacity, but had recently read similar ideas in his grandfather Erasmus' journals.[30] Darwin was rather bored by Robert Jameson's natural-history course, which covered geology—including the debate between Neptunism and Plutonism. He learned the classification of plants, and assisted with work on the collections of the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at the time.[31]

Darwin's neglect of medical studies annoyed his father, who shrewdly sent him to Christ's College, Cambridge, to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree as the first step towards becoming an Anglican country parson. As Darwin was unqualified for the Tripos, he joined the ordinary degree course in January 1828.[32] He preferred riding and shooting to studying.[33]

During the first few months of Darwin's enrollment, his second cousin William Darwin Fox was also studying at Christ's College. Fox impressed him with his butterfly collection, introducing Darwin to entomology and influencing him to pursue beetle collecting.[34][35] He did this zealously, and had some of his finds published in James Francis Stephens' Illustrations of British entomology (1829–32).[35][36]

Also through Fox, Darwin became a close friend and follower of botany professor John Stevens Henslow.[34] He met other leading parson-naturalists who saw scientific work as religious natural theology, becoming known to these dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near, Darwin applied himself to his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of William Paley's Evidences of Christianity (1795).[37] In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin did well, coming tenth out of 178 candidates for the ordinary degree.[38]

Darwin had to stay at Cambridge until June 1831. He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (first published in 1802), which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature[39]
He read John Herschel's new book, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831), which described the highest aim of natural philosophy as understanding such laws through inductive reasoning based on observation, and Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of scientific travels in 1799–1804.
Inspired with "a burning zeal" to contribute, Darwin planned to visit Tenerife with some classmates after graduation to study natural history in the tropics. In preparation, he joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then on 4 August travelled with him to spend a fortnight mapping strata in Wales.[40][41]....."""

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[Viktor]

LINK?
(Withheld info No doubt within. Viktor is a DISHONEST Creationist, like most)

Wiki: Darwin
"...Darwin spent the summer of 1825 as an apprentice Doctor, helping his father treat the poor of Shropshire, before going to the University of Edinburgh Medical School (at the time the best medical school in the UK) with his brother Erasmus in October 1825. Darwin found lectures dull and surgery distressing, so he neglected his studies. He learned taxidermy in around 40 daily hour-long sessions from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who had accompanied Charles Waterton in the South American rainforest.[28]

In Darwin's second year at the university, he joined the Plinian Society, a student Natural-history group featuring lively debates in which radical democratic students with materialistic views challenged orthodox religious concepts of science.[29]
He assisted Robert Edmond Grant's investigations of the anatomy and life cycle of marine invertebrates in the Firth of Forth, and on 27 March 1827 presented at the Plinian his own discovery that black spores found in oyster shells were the eggs of a skate leech.
One day, Grant praised Lamarck's evolutionary ideas. Darwin was astonished by Grant's audacity, but had recently read similar ideas in his grandfather Erasmus' journals.[30] Darwin was rather bored by Robert Jameson's natural-history course, which covered geology—including the debate between Neptunism and Plutonism. He learned the classification of plants, and assisted with work on the collections of the University Museum, one of the largest museums in Europe at the time.[31]

Darwin's neglect of medical studies annoyed his father, who shrewdly sent him to Christ's College, Cambridge, to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree as the first step towards becoming an Anglican country parson. As Darwin was unqualified for the Tripos, he joined the ordinary degree course in January 1828.[32] He preferred riding and shooting to studying.[33]

During the first few months of Darwin's enrollment, his second cousin William Darwin Fox was also studying at Christ's College. Fox impressed him with his butterfly collection, introducing Darwin to entomology and influencing him to pursue beetle collecting.[34][35] He did this zealously, and had some of his finds published in James Francis Stephens' Illustrations of British entomology (1829–32).[35][36]

Also through Fox, Darwin became a close friend and follower of botany professor John Stevens Henslow.[34] He met other leading parson-naturalists who saw scientific work as religious natural theology, becoming known to these dons as "the man who walks with Henslow". When his own exams drew near, Darwin applied himself to his studies and was delighted by the language and logic of William Paley's Evidences of Christianity (1795).[37] In his final examination in January 1831 Darwin did well, coming tenth out of 178 candidates for the ordinary degree.[38]

Darwin had to stay at Cambridge until June 1831. He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (first published in 1802), which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature[39]
He read John Herschel's new book, Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831), which described the highest aim of natural philosophy as understanding such laws through inductive reasoning based on observation, and Alexander von Humboldt's Personal Narrative of scientific travels in 1799–1804.
Inspired with "a burning zeal" to contribute, Darwin planned to visit Tenerife with some classmates after graduation to study natural history in the tropics. In preparation, he joined Adam Sedgwick's geology course, then on 4 August travelled with him to spend a fortnight mapping strata in Wales.[40][41]....."""

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[abu afak]

IGNORE

DISHONEST DEFEATED KWEATIONIST CAN'T ANSWER with LINK.

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[Hollie]

IGNORE

Bailing out in the face of facts is an identifiable pattern of behavior for some in these threads.

As Abu noted in his post, Darwin studied under a roll call of the best scientists of the day including John Stevens Henslow,, Charles Lyell and Charles Grant. While doing his studies in medicine the first years at Edinburgh, and then the theological studies at Cambridge, he gained the very best education in science one could have.

If you woukd like, we could have a discussion of ID'iot creationists with faux / mail order degrees, often in subjects unrelated to science.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I remember reading somewhere that Darwin hated listening to lectures in medical school and that surgeries made him sick. He did learn taxidermy, which might have been a good sideline if he ever did become a doctor. He could have preserved his failures for future med students to learn from.

Didn't he believe that adaptations were all part of God's plan?

 

[Hollie]

I remember reading somewhere that Darwin hated listening to lectures in medical school and that surgeries made him sick. He did learn taxidermy, which might have been a good sideline if he ever did become a doctor. He could have preserved his failures for future med students to learn from.

Didn't he believe that adaptations were all part of God's plan?

Another saliva slinging rant, totally unsupported.

Science and education terrifies ID'iot creationers.

 

[surada]

You are not supposed to bring that up! The poor guy couldn't discern a new species from an adaptation if it flew up his nose. Like heliocentrism, gradual evolution was a nice theory until the pieces didn't quite fit.

So you're a creationist?

 

[jwoodie]

So you're a creationist?

No, I am a logician. I do not believe the Universe was created in seven days (although the biblical order of its creation is remarkably plausible). Neither do I believe that gradual evolution is a complete explanation for the creation of new species (as opposed to their adaptation to new environments). Also, I do not pretend to understand some grand plan for the universe or what its future will be.

What I have concluded is that human beings are distinct from other animals as is Earth distinct from other planets. At the very least, they appear to be anomalies that are not explainable as inevitable statistical probabilities.

This leads me to suspect that there are other elements involved in these creations that are not yet understood. I also suspect that human beings do not possess all the intelligence in the universe. At least I hope so.