Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species

Evolution is a very controversial subject throughout the world, especially in the United States. Despite mounting evidence in favor of evolution, there are still people who deny the theory, for the most part on the basis of religious beliefs. However, there are many people who also believe that religion and evolution are compatible with each other. Even still, there are those who believe that evolution discounts the majority of religions in the world. Charles Darwin summarized the theory of evolution in his book On The Origin of Species, originally published on November, 24, 1859 which had six revisions. Due to not knowing anything about genetics in the nineteenth century, the book itself covers microevolution, which is simply adaptation to environmental factors such as temperature, food sources, predators, etc. An example of microevolution is; if there are birds of the same species, on an island that has a main food source of worms and nuts, the birds will be better suited to eat one of the two food sources. Such as some of the birds have longer, thinner beaks that eat the worms, and the others have short, stubby beaks that eat the nuts. If there is a drought, which results in almost no nuts to go around, there will be less and less short beaked birds due to

However, the part of evolution that is controversial, macroevolution, is simply one microevolution stacked atop another, and another, and another, for a large time frame; perhaps a million years, which is, of course, not witnessable by us as humans. The illogical hypothesis of some deniers, that a duck magically turns into a kitten or that a lion morphs into a whale, is due to the fact that they do not understand the logistics of evolution or even care enough to be informed. Although not all deniers of evolution fall into this category, misinformed people do make up a decent