{"id":3589,"date":"2020-04-06T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T03:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=3589"},"modified":"2020-08-22T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:46:17","slug":"the-evolution-of-charles-darwin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-5\/5-1\/the-evolution-of-charles-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; The Evolution of Charles Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles Darwin started out in life believing, as most people in his time did, that life in all of its variety was the result of direct creation by God. Then he went on a trip around the world on the HMS Beagle as ship&#8217;s naturalist. He kept detailed notes of what he saw on his journey and only later, on his return to England did he slowly piece together the theory that is new closely associated with his name, the theory of evolution by natural selection. Read about his voyage, his discoveries and his slow realization that there was a better explanation for the diversity and adaptation of life on earth than the one he grew up believing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/the-evolution-of-charles-darwin-110234034\/\">The Evolution of Charles Darwin<\/a><\/h4><p>Smithsonian Magazine | From the nine times I have made the 5,000-mile journey to the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands, to follow in Charles Darwin&#8217;s footsteps, the most enduring impression I have gained is of life&#8217;s fragility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Darwin started out in life believing, as most people in his time did, that life in all of its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":909,"menu_order":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3589","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3589\/revisions\/4674"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}