The Importance of Charles Darwin

The Importance of Charles Darwin​

07/30/2013
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His Ideas Are a Linchpin of Modern Science
Charles Darwin




Charles Darwin is centrally important in the development of scientific and humanist ideas because he first made people aware of their place in the evolutionary process when the most powerful and intelligent form of life discovered how humanity had evolved.
The theory of evolution by natural selection was first put forward by Darwin in On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, and his theory is still generally accepted as the Best available explanation of the way life on this planet developed.
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We made breed selection since decades of thousands of years - we learned to do so from nature. So how important was the "new" step from Charles Darwin indeed to find out that nature is also doing what we learned to do from nature? Charles Darwin unfortunatelly transports a lot of the racism and feeling of superiority from the British empire into the 20th and 21st century. The most people for example see in case of richdom (money-richdom) an elitarian reason ("social darwinism") instead to see richdom as an effect of the self-reflective chaotic system of the rules of the game capitalism. Who has more money is not really "fitter" than others - except perhaps this one uses this money to learn a lot about the reality all around us. A man like van Gogh for example had been poor - his pictures cost now millions. Van Gogh created a new form how to see the world in arts. And he was not mad!!! He became mad because of intoxications as a result of his poor living conditions. The world in which he lived did not fit to him and died out.

 
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