Okay, you may be wondering what this is all about (actually, I know you are). Well, a couple weeks ago my mom was teaching history (big surprise. we do history all the time around here). Well, I opened my notebook to find that we were learning about Charles Darwin. As I am an expert on this guy, thanks to Jonathan Park and Vision Forum, I was thrilled (why, you ask? oh, you'll soon see). This may seem strange to you because why would I be thrilled? I mean, I still had to write the paper on the dude. How thrilling is that?

Well, I will tell you that it is very thrilling for a person whose church quarterly holds an Elocution Club where people from our church come and, by either reciting things memorised, or demonstrating something, or proving a point. Why is this thrilling? Well, when somone (like me) has made an entire presentation on Evolution and Charles Darwin but decided not to use it and saved this presentaion on one's computer, that is very thrilling because it means that I didn't have to write a paper and, with a few clicks of a mouse and a few seconds of waiting for a printer to print, I had a fully detailed and 100% true four page long paper on Charles Darwin. I have included this paper in this post for you to read below:

Charles Darwin

An Exclusive report by HRTF

  Although evolutionary ideas have been around for thousands of years, Charles Darwin is often credited for inventing the modern theory of evolution. He is most famous for his book, “The Origin of Species.” Even though Darwin loved science, his only official training was to prepare him for the ministry. He studied at Christ’s College in Cambridge, England.

 Sadly, Charles Darwin lost faith in God’s Word. While there were many factors that influenced his unbelief, one of the most powerful was “the problem of evil.” He could not understand why a good and loving God would allow death, pain, and suffering. One of Darwin’s favorite books was “Principles of Geology” by Charles Lyell. Before Lyell published his book, most people thought that a worldwide flood formed the huge rock layers found around the earth.

 However, Charles Lyell proposed that these rock layers were actually deposited very, very slowly over millions of years. In his book, he ridiculed belief in a young creation and taught that the earth was very old.

 On December 27, 1831, Darwin boarded a ship named the HMS Beagle. They sailed from Plymouth Harbor, England to the Santa Cruz River Valley in Argentina.

 When they arrived, Darwin looked at the small river that its way through the huge valley. After reading Lyell’s book, Darwin wondered if it were possible that this little river carved out the canyon over millions of years. It made sense to him.

 It was here at the Santa Cruz River Valley that Darwin really accepted geological gradualism – the idea that geological formations take millions of years to form.

 After the Santa Cruz River, the Beagle continued on its way to the Galapagos Islands.

 Darwin observed the finches that lived there. He collected some back to a man in England who studied them and divided them into 13 different species. The man noticed some of these finches had long beaks and others had shorter ones.

 When Darwin returned home, he began to wonder if the finches were changing slowly over time. He remembered the observations about the river valley being carved slowly. That’s when he took the idea of geological gradualism and made a new theory – biological gradualism, the idea that one type of animal can slowly change into another. That was the birth of modern-day theory of Evolution.

I hope that you liked that and that it informed you on our friend Charles Darwin.

This is totally changing the subject, but FORGET EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT ARIZONA FLETCH!!! I have started a new blog about Arizona Fletch entitled Arizona Fletch- the blog (what else?). Here you may read the whole story of Arizona Fletch, front to back, and I will keep adding new parts, probably 2 - 4 times a month.

Ciao,

HRTF