Charles Darwin: Evolution and Religion

Charles Darwin, the mild mannered son of a physician, was once described as the most dangerous man in England. In fact many people considered him to be the agent of the Devil himself, come to sow seeds of corruption among the faithful.
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[@harrygariepy2763]

Fun fact: Darwin had a tortoise that had he used for research, one a century later, the late and great Steve Irwin owned that very same tortoise for a short period of time before it died.

[@wildboy3937]

damn i wish i have a longevity of a tortoise

[@joshglover2370]

Steve Irwin's death broke my heart so bad!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

If that turtle could talk...

[@amirmohammadganji485]

Two great biologists

[@aneesehamudi7665]

Darwin and his helper took turns fucking that turtle in the goal of creating a hybrid,steve heard about this and tried fucking that same turtle,and thats why stingrays killed him

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Early years 2:10 - Chapter 2 - A growing fascination 5:00 - Chapter 3 - A 5 years voyage 10:45 - Chapter 4 - A theory evolves 12:45 - Chapter 5 - A respected scientist 13:55 - Chapter 6 - The book that shocked the world

[@gurupuduru5917]

Thx mate

[@jerrychacon8814]

Humans evolving from animal is not a new idea even before Darwin. it's superstition and not knowing the truth man doesn't have the answer he makes up one. Like the Earth is held up by a giant man, the Earth is flat if you go off the edge you'll fall, a pile of rags will become mice, if your sick they let out your blood so the evil spirits will came out.its the same old regressing backwards, old ideas repackaged. The mathematical probability of life coming about on its own is impossible.

[@normanthrelfall2646]

All out of date according to what we can observe, test and study. kind regards

[@Farhancanopyone]

I wasn’t sure if I could get through the entire 19 minute video but clicked away anyway. Now, after watching the entire video, I am left longing for more! Excellent work!

[@brewtalityk]

19 mins is pretty short for someone who lived a long life, made many scientific discoveries, and had a very interesting life. Don't underestimate your attention span ;) LEARN!

[@michaelthomas4275]

Been watching all i can after finding him

[@michaelfrazia4569]

these guys and gals are great at these bios ..Simon is the best

[@ActionJackson669]

19 minutes is too long? Damn, attention span is getting shorter and shorter. Unless you are just really busy 🤷🏻‍♂️ But 20 minutes ain't that bad at all, especially for informational videos

[@SilverionX]

I've read The Origin of Species. It is indeed a very readable and interesting book. It's amazing how meticulously he documented his work and did his experiments.

[@BudDougherty]

It's amazing how white supremacist and racist he was.

[@SilverionX]

@@BudDougherty I don't remember it being that much worse than anything else I read from the time period.

[@degew9367]

@@BudDougherty Wait.. SOmeone from the Early 1800s Was Racist?? Noo.. ImpossiBle

[@andrewpytko4773]

@@BudDougherty He was none of those things and spoke out against racism and white supremacism.

[@stephenwagers7978]

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

[@saintdeyma6563]

I love that you did a Biographic on Charles Darwin, I’d been wanting to see your take on his life. And I love how you went into it totally unbiased and professionally where as a lot of other content creators would be arguing either for or against him and his work. That’s why Biographics and your other channel, TopTenz, are my favorite sources for information like this. Keep going, Simon! I can’t wait for the next amazing video!

[@dylancooper787]

TIFO gets no love?

[@mrmorelove846]

Don’t forget about the Today I found out channel!

This is the perfect example of what news should be. Reporting the facts, just the facts. Not left-wing or right-wing.

[@readwithrach2327]

+ geographics and business blaze

[@quadeevans6484]

To be fair toptenz is pretty inaccurate

[@c.jgressman2181]

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. - Thomas Jefferson

[@danielleLaw007]

No. People who have faith and truly know God on the contrary do not live in fear but in light. People who live in fear do not know him

[@vytrva]

@@danielleLaw007 Was Simeon a faithful man? Because the Bible describes him as a 'Good, God-fearing Man'

[@danielleLaw007]

"Fear" is an anomaly attached to stigma. There is a saying in the Bible "Fear nothing and nobody I put on this Earth but me... Definitely not used as a verb in this circumstance but more a subjective adverb. It's a reminder to those who mentally, physically and spiritually possess the quality of bliblical comprehension and belief that no matter what may happen to you (generalized) in this life on Earth is nothing compared to what could happen to you in the life thereafter. Basically it's meant to halt and aid people from potentially making wrong choices towards making the right ones. At the end of the day we special people were given free will

[@danielleLaw007]

Thomas Jefferson is not a good example of a person whom would question the intentions and or religious ideas of The Creator, would instead purely state a subjective oppositional perceived judgement on the religious matter. Describing "Fear" in it's literal sense is an exaggeration an overstatement embellished preconceived injustice of Grace to the highest degree

[@cardhutt]

@@danielleLaw007 what you call light, many of us call ignorance.

[@HundreadD]

One of the most fearless researchers to have devoted themselves to science

[@eduardogardin879]

But there are big gaps in his theory. It is one thing to understand that changes happen to species, but that is a far cry from new species developing from others. Darwin had an elegant theory, but at the time he did not know about these systems worked or even looked like. Now we have explored DNA and in it there is a code similar to computer code giving birth to the theory of Smart Design. Someone said that it takes as more faith to believe that NOTHING BLEW UP AND BECAME EVERYTHING as to believe in smart design. Religion is not in competition with science. As a matter of fact the father of the Big Bang Theory was a Belgian Catholic Priest named Georges Lemâtre.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

@@eduardogardin879 Darwin never said life came from nothingness. Do you even know what his theory says?

[@PinkyJujubean]

If I had a time machine I'd go back in time to meet Charles Darwin. Then I'd show him Planet of The Apes and tell him this is what the future holds

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

Orginal or remake?

[@PinkyJujubean]

@@SoManyRandomRamblings the original of course. Can't deny Darwin the chance to see Charlton Heston utter his famous lines. I'd also bring Beneath the Planet of the Apes

[@alextorres5886]

Greatest prank ever

[@404errorcodeV]

Mad props to Charles for even TRYING to go to medical school. I never could.

[@ethanrussell3163]

Feel bad for my G Alfred Wallace, came to basically the exact same conclusion, but stepped aside to let Darwin's name be cemented in time. What a gent.

[@apJoe90]

Both were honourable men. From Wikipedia:

[@apJoe90]

Darwin was very aware of Wallace's financial difficulties and lobbied long and hard to get Wallace awarded a government pension for his lifetime contributions to science. When the £200 annual pension was awarded in 1881, it helped to stabilise Wallace's financial position by supplementing the income from his writings.

[@cmeola1066]

Thank you, Simon. I was moved by this video as it reminded me of a dear professor of mine who particularly loved and studied Darwin and the Victorian era. His name was Charles and I’ll never forget how he converted his back patio into an aviary for finches.

[@Dsdcain]

Very good video (as usual) Biographics. I never really thought about the fact that Charles Darwin was so young when he sailed on HMS Beagle. Thanks for the video Simon and crew. Really an awesome channel, one of my favorites. *:-)*

[@matttucker3]

You guys never disappoint. Thank you I really appreciate you guys’ work keep it up 😁👍🏼

[@uni0095]

Dear Simon, all your channels are really good and informative. Kudos to you. Continue your good work.

[@brettwilson359]

Great video. Thoroughly researched and executed, as normal. I enjoy hearing varying points of view of Darwin, at least ones made by those who's purpose is to increase knowledge and not just disprove someone else. Well done.

[@will2003michael2003]

Very well put together. Loved it. Thanks!

[@IamAvni]

Thank you Simon for sharing the knowledge, our common human heritage, in such an easy way to understand! I showed your videos to my llil nephews and also to my old parents and it was easy to understand and follow for both! Not many have the skills of presenting an argument/story/account the way you do. It is by far one of my fav youtube channels and I would call it a great contribution to preserving and sharing the common humankind's knowledge! Peace

[@artaeum7069]

Fun fact: The school in Shrewsbury Darwin attended is now a very cosy public library. Worth a visit if you're ever passing through.

[@greygalah]

another informative and interesting Biography. thanks

[@OmnivorousReader]

Good bio. I am reading The Origin of Species at the moment and it makes one curious about Darwin. It is so very beautifully written and the research that went into the theories is meticulous.

[@shelleynobleart]

Great content. Great lighting.

[@mrmorelove846]

NobleDesignMedia lighting? Photographer? Lol

[@alexquinn1847]

Excellent video, thanks for the effort you all put into this

[@rosesmith6925]

Love your new channel Simon. Just love your voice as you tell a story and too cute. Thanks for a break in the long day. You guys come up with such interesting things!

[@loretta_3843]

I feel rather stupid never to have realised the real courage it took Darwin to actually make his work/theory public. I don't know if I'd be able to put up with the negative reaction of so many - people can get rather nasty when you dare to question things that lead to religious matters.

[@maxnullifidian]

I've just finished reading Irving Stone's book, The Origin: A Biographical Novel of Charles Darwin. It was a very good read, and I feel almost as if I knew the fellow personally. I've also come across a copy of On the Origin of Species, so I'll be reading that soon, also.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

16:17 Also he was never able to come up with a mechanism by which organisms could evolve. The nature of genetics (and mutation) was not unravelled until later. Many at the time considered this a weakness in his argument.

[@andrewcarter803]

I've loved the ones I have watched and I'm working my way through all of them. Please do Albert Einstein. (Apologies if he has already been done, but I couldn't find one!)

[@SteamCheese1]

"But it's only a Theory!" So is gravity and relativity... Theory in the scientific context means that it's repeatable to high grade of accuracy in practice and on paper. It's a Theory because you can "theoretically" calculate and predict it with such high accuracy that you can work it out on paper.

[@brewtalityk]

Right. While there is no possible way for someone to go back and actually make a record of how the world changed over millennia, there is bountiful evidence to show that it happened.

[@MadameZeroni473]

Fellow agnostic here. & Sure, I believe in evolution. Micro evolution.

[@benl8962]

@@MadameZeroni473 so what stops micro evolution from becoming macro evolution over a long period of time?

[@danyellwar77]

@@brewtalityk wow thats a great way to put it. I have someone that i often have these discussions with anf he always ends in we cantbbelieve any books or anything from anyone else for sure for sure because we werent there. I always say thats a coop out answer because we know people have studied things and theres evidence of improvements from these studies such as. Medicine and research we can see some evidence of their scientific studies that worked and helped us as well as evidence we can see of what existed before. Etc. So there is some proof we can believe is most likely what happened. So i like way you explained it short and understandable. Thanks👍

[@danyellwar77]

@@benl8962 good question. Humm maybe at the time of life for whatever first species it was a plethora of whatever organism that encouraged mutations and life slowed down over time. Maybe having added species slowed it down. But idk. But makes u say hummm.

[@iangrau-fay592]

A very straightforward and honest video that does justice to one of the great minds of history. Thank you.

[@sharonrynes2433]

Excellent as always!

[@TheTruthHidden]

your videos are always amazing!! thank you!!

[@mikaeleriksson1341]

Great work Simon,Keep it up!

[@BrewBlaster]

To me the most important thing to be taught to children and adults should be History. Thank You for doing this Sir!! History is the greatest truth of all and the best constructor of the best future we can have.

[@hagarcia8311]

History is made by actual winner

[@BrewBlaster]

@@hagarcia8311 And so that makes it the truth?

[@BoonesFarm50]

Once again, sir, I am pleasantly surprised with your ability to gather key personal and scientific landmarks in such and incredible mans career in a way that truly show's the human element behind the man. Most people don't know about his roots in the clergy, and how much support he did receive from many religious people in the scientific community as well. Just a great man and an amazingly well done synopsis of his work. bravo Mr. Whistler, keep up the good work!

[@dianadavis5002]

I love your video's. I want to research the subject even more after your video. Thank you so much.

[@mdk124]

Hey Simon! I am a student who is currently taking a module on the life of Darwin and the module focuses on tackling common beliefs regarding Darwin's experiences. This module is by Dr John Van Wyde and he focuses on Charles Darwin as well as Wallace. While the video was mostly coherent with the content of the module, there are a few common myths that was brought up: Apparently FitzRoy was looking for a naturalist to serve on board the Beagle as during the first Voyage to Africa no naturalist was present and he felt that it was a lost opportunity to record the species observed. Henslow was originally given this opportunity to serve aboard, but refused as he had a family, he recommended Darwin as the most suitable person for this position. At the Galapagos Islands, it was not the finches that caught Darwin's attention but rather the Mockingbirds. Darwin did not know that the birds were Finches until they were examined by John Gould. Darwin Finches were popularized by another scientist, David Lack as he published a book with this title. Alfred Wallace, came up with a theory on evolution but it was quite different from Darwin's and Darwin had many more theories and explanation. His letter did prompt Darwin to condense his work into just the important bits instead of an elaborated one. Regarding Darwin's Delay, he wasn't as afraid of challenging the scientific beliefs of that time as he felt that his work was based on hard facts and evidence, compared to the Vestiges of Creation that was written by Robert Chambers (Who wasn't qualified in science). Darwin was simply busy working on the Beagle's Voyage as well as subsequently work on Barnacles, such delays are common when comparing Darwin's publications. These are some of what my lecture has taught me! If I remember them correctly, do correct me if I'm wrong!

[@Nathan-kd6vd]

Great episode! I would really love if you made one about Jimi Hendrix🙏

[@NicholasWoodley]

Brilliant. I love Darwin. Great summary of his life. A trip to Down House is amazing. Can you do Sir David Attenborough soon

[@jakeduffy_]

T.E. Lawrence! Lawrence of Arabia deserves a biographic!

[@jamesdavis9036]

YES

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

This is great! I very much wish that you make an episode on Georg Cantor - the founder of Set theory in mathematics, which nowadays is considered as a base for all of mathematics.

[@RealLife-dp9dd]

People who criticise Darwin , haven't probably read a single book on the other hand the amount of work Darwin did was extraordinary

[@RealLife-dp9dd]

@@JustSamD science does not care about emotions, crimes, feelings if a fact is falsifiable and truth it is part of scientific knowldege regardless of how the scientist behaved.

[@amirmohammadganji485]

Samol Duong look that’s completely understandable. I may not agree with you but you can believe what you want. In science nothing is proven everything is just : not disproven.

[@wikitewok1383]

Doesn't matter how hard you work, if you start the work based off false info the outcome will always be false. Evolution is true but only limited animals evolve do to envirnment, humans don't evolve physically we make tools and invent things to help us adapt. Animals can't do this so they evolve. If humans evolve at all it's at such a slow pace that can't be timed. Religion and God is real. Just because you can't explain it scientifically, it has been proven mathematically, and beings how the universe is made entirely of math equations, I tend to believe the math. The odds of life coming from the " big bang (theory)" (theory highlighted to show it has not been proven fact") and not from a single creator are 10:1, 10 times more unlikely then an existence of God. Science is just man trying to figure and try to make sense of the universe. Science also states that if the evidence points to 1 thing then that is what it is.

[@headgames3115]

@@wikitewok1383 "Religion and God is real". Which one? Yours?

[@memegames6743]

wikit ewok chimps have evolved and are literally in the Stone Age and using tools now explain that

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

My favorite person in History!

[@user-uk6qy4jx5s]

My too.

[@obempire17]

This was amazing! Thank you

[@knappoguehouse]

Brilliant ! Both entertaining and educational .

[@ARHONTIS1]

Excellent video I suggest a biographic about lavoisier

[@MidnightMan5001]

"Hello there, and welcome to a world called Earth. Where actual minds do groundbreaking work.

[@RichardRenes]

if you're looking for the fittest, I'm the natural selection

[@michaelkramer1273]

"Look, mighty morphing Michael Vick, your animated slave fights make me sick". Lmao ERB

[@Differentad-mq9tk]

your so ineffective you couldn't even turn eleven

[@dhritimanmajumder2924]

@@Differentad-mq9tk It took millions of years for mankind to evolve

[@drezilla1310]

@@dhritimanmajumder2924 Are you related to a banana?

[@otiebrown9999]

Always very good!

[@Havoc_Unlimited]

Brilliant as always

[@weezerfan999]

Darwin was someone who fascinated me, really likes that you presented a lot of information, that I didn’t know. Why did you choose not to talk about his “thinking paths”? You could easily make a part 2 on him. Thank you

[@avimoyal149]

Just a huge thank you. You are amazing.

[@Adam-dn3gt]

Thank you so much I needed this for my project

[@StaticBlaster]

"How great would be the desire in every admirer of nature to behold, if such were possible, the scenery of another planet!"-charles darwin

[@MrChopstsicks]

Wooo!! Malaysia mentioned!

[@BenB23.]

You guys do a good job your biographies are pretty unbiased considering most of the subjects are very controversial

[@annettepf18]

excellent channel-bravo-plus your easy on the eyes :)

[@dshe8637]

Nicely done. Thank you. For another biog, how about Robert Fitzroy?

[@thenobleone-3384]

For humans to evolve from Apes that makes more sense to me than the Adam and Eve theory

[@millionaireno1382]

Yeah, the Adam and eve story sounds more like a fairy tale then a theory of where we came from.

[@user-uk6qy4jx5s]

We have an common ancestor.

[@joemelnick]

Excellent..Always Great. Thank you.

[@zoofan9280]

Great work mr whistler

[@serenas8144]

I 💛 your work, and your voice.

[@anungodlyamountofcereal6384]

I can't tell who has a better beard,Simon or Darwin

[@jimfoard5671]

As far as the early development of his character, we get an interesting glint of what his personality may have been like from his autobiography, where Darwin tells us: "Whilst at the day school, or before that time, I acted cruelly, for I beat a puppy I believe, simply from enjoying the sense of power; but the beating could not have been severe, for the puppy did not howl, of which I feel sure as the spot was near to the house." (25) He did admit though that the act “lay heavily on my conscience, as is shown by my remembering the exact spot where the crime had been committed." Charles Darwin, Autobiography, pp.26-27. One can only speculate why, if the puppy was not injured, was Darwin so haunted by the incident for many years afterward, and why he referred to it as a "crime". Was it the prompting of a guilty conscience that betrayed a more serious incident than he was ready to admit? Darwin entered Shrewsbury school in 1818, where he was anything but an outstanding scholar. De Beer informs us: "He was a poor student, and in 1825 his father reproached him, saying, 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family." Biographical note attached to Darwin's Origin of Species, Benton edition, also Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 16, 1986. This is corroborated in other biographies of him, and in his own autobiography he stated that he felt incapable of learning languages and never understood algebra or mastered higher mathematics. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, pp. 18, Dover Publications, New York, 1958. Much has been said by historians of Darwin's observations of the finches on the Galapagos islands while sailing on the Beagle, but little is mentioned of another incident Darwin had with some less fortunate birds on a different island during his voyage. We have three accounts of an excursion made by Darwin and the Captain from the Beagle to St. Paul's Rocks between the Cape Verde Islands and the coast of Brazil. First we shall read Darwin's version of the episode: " We found on St. Paul's only two kinds of birds-the booby and the noddy. The former is a species of Gannet, and the latter a tern. Both are of a tame and stupid disposition, and are so unaccustomed to visitors, that I could have killed any number of them with my geologic hammer." The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin, pp.10, The American Museum of Natural History, The Natural History Library, Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Inc., Garden City New York, 1962. Browne mentioned the appalling incident in her biography of Darwin: " Uninhabited except for dense flocks of seafowl, and previously unvisited by any scientific recorder, they were an alluring target for a restless naval man and an eager friend . . . Darwin and Fitzroy had a marvelous time of it, whooping and killing birds with abandon".Browne, pp.204. See also the original, Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle, Vol. 2:56. Fitzroy recorded the bloody scene in his personal narrative as well. According to him, one of the seamen asked if he could borrow Darwin's hammer to kill some of the birds with, to which Darwin replied, "No, no, you'll break the handle." Then, apparently struck by the novelty of this idea, Darwin himself picked up his hammer and began killing the peaceful birds in this manner, as Fitzroy related "away went the hammer, with all the force of his own right arm." Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by Admiral Fitzroy, 1839. See also Amabel Williams Ellis, "The Voyage of the Beagle, Adapted from the Narratives and letters of Charles Darwin and Captain Fitzroy, pp. 26, J.B. Lippencott Co., Philadelphia and London, 1931.

[@lwmaynard5180]

British scientist Peiter Cullis mentioned in one of his books, that Darwin was bipolar and a alcoholic.

[@markward3981]

Not to mention what he thought about many humans as less than his European group and closer to animals.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

@@markward3981 How is that different from literally any European in the 19th century? By the way, there's no evidence for this.

[@markward3981]

@@matteomastrodomenico1231 Every European at the time didn't posit the theory that he did.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

@@markward3981 True, but evolution doesn't state that some humans are superior. It doesn't even say they are different from animals.

[@angiecuteass]

cool with personalities that arouse my curiosity , as always I like :-)

[@chandsingh4403]

this vid is so helpful

[@brunobjorneheim4646]

This saved my science grade XD

[@danyellwar77]

This was a great video. Very informative. I had these beliefs and didnt even know alot if it was Darwinism.

[@PaleoTheExaminer]

Congratulations honestly 🔬🔬

[@user-uk6qy4jx5s]

Interesting!

[@cadelaide]

A great man a great review

[@cookiepie01]

Excellent biography of a great and inspiring man! Thanks Biographics 😊

[@LoveDoctorNL]

Thank beetles he did not become a priest.

[@libertygiveme1987]

Peter - "Thank Beetles...." Huh?!.

[@NickM-jv8zk]

Liberty GiveMe beetles were what first captured his attention and set him off studying nature :)

[@markuhler2664]

Nick M - Didn't Lennon once describe the Beatles ad bigger than God?

[@NickM-jv8zk]

Hahahahaha! 😂

[@Goujiki]

That makes no sense. If evolution is true, then someone else would have come to the same conclusion. Is that not correct? But I believe it is for this reason, that many people, evolutionists and theologians are still small minded people, acting on desire and emotion, picking what belief suits their own selves personally, rather than being eternally open minded.

[@thenobleone-3384]

I know more about John Dalton and Louis Pasteur and they were Biologists. I find it interesting how u can study certain animals and apply that to Medicine

[@da_knug]

very interesting video! Could you do Charles Linnaeus or Gustaf II Adolf?

[@MtnTow]

There was some kind of ad for intelligent design before the video. Lmao

[@danieladeutsch1708]

Thank you for this amazing documentary. Can you please consider to make one about Gregor Johann Mendel - he gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Thank you.

[@danieladeutsch1708]

@Augusto Helmer Thank you very much, that is very interesting.

[@Jackofalltradesmastersofnone]

Love your videos. Word of advice if you will put a rug or a blanket on your hardwood floors while filming it will knock the echo down. I like the video made in the home though.

[@jarnomikkola8438]

18:35 The sub- button does exactly what it says it does, it allows the user to view your channel content from the Subscribe tab in youtube. I myself have a 220+ channels, and have never missed a content I wanted to see. And nor do I watch all of them. The bell icon is just a bot tag and thanks but I have all the XYZ I want.

[@kamaatoshty3182]

I love your work sir. Please do one on Galileo Galilei.

[@mizofan]

Now how about the great Alfred Russel Wallace? Had he not written to Darwin he would have had credit alone as originator of the evolution theory. An admirable humble man, with wide ranging interests, social conscience, but lacking Darwin's connections- he still deserves more credit and attention

[@johnweems5096]

mizofan mostly true, but they came to similar conclusions from their studies, separately

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

I'd be interested in an episode on his uncle Erasmus. Obviously not as important to world history, but pretty fascinating nonetheless.

[@jaredquinney204]

This is really beautiful

[@herpetoholic]

One naturalist I want to hear more about is George Cuvier, I know about his discoveries but not his life. Without his work laying the way, the theory of evolution may never have revealed itself to Darwin. Also, Thomas Henry Huxley would be interesting to hear about.

[@Outsider25E]

Awesome video, as always.. Very informative. Only noticed one thing.. Pretty sure Alfred Wallace’s letter didn’t arrive in 1885, considering that Darwin died in 1882...

[@Bassquake76]

4:04 "..budding romance with Fanny." 🤣 I'm 12.

[@mohit5496]

😂😂😂

[@AndrewTheCelt]

Excellent

[@johnsoe1676]

so the point was if you had enough daddy's money and like to learn, you can achieve anything

[@ShadowDragonGT]

Why wasn’t this around when I was in school

[@devongoodman2749]

I’ve been watching your videos for a while, you are an incredibly good orator. Thank you for the hours of entertainment and education!

[@koushikhenry]

Awesome video and the BGM. BTW where is this BGM from? Thanks

[@sahholsteins1]

I went to a catholic school and they taught us what Darwin did, man times have changed

[@kl0wnkiller912]

When I went to public school in the 1960s and 70s they taught both evolution and creationism. Back then schools were places where young minds were encouraged to draw their own conclusions instead of being brainwashed.

[@theresaivy7274]

I would love to see the life of Ayn Rand get the biographic treatment. Also, Truman Capone, the nation of Israel (I know it's not a life in the usual sense), Gypsy Rose Lee, I.M. Pei, Ian Fleming, Arthur Ashe and Mick Jagger.

[@MrUms431]

Great video....

[@jamessuttie1261]

Fabulous!

[@noidreculse8906]

Thank Dog for Charles Darwin 👍🏻

[@marieturnage-jensen7603]

Any way you could educate us about the man that finished our first english dictionary?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

5:05 _Beagle_ captain and also later a Governor of New Zealand. Which is we we have streets in various towns named after him.

[@prempalsharma7]

Brilliant

[@cryptonian7706]

darwin was one of the brave scientist that dared to question and dared to look for the truth regardless of his personal feelings and social backlash and its because of brave men and women that we have this future

[@paulk9188]

Orgin of information ALWAYS arises from an intelligent source

[@anthonythistle1465]

Actually I heard he came up with the theory in reaction to his hatred of his father which I wouldn't be surprised by.

[@anthonythistle1465]

@@andrewpytko4773 It does actually. Hatred stops you from seeing things correctly.

[@matteomastrodomenico1231]

@@anthonythistle1465 Then why pretty much every other scientist still found it to be true?

[@anthonythistle1465]

@@matteomastrodomenico1231 Scientists are human too and easily corrupted or fall for lies and deception. You should never put anyone on a pedestal.

[@azaanwani7402]

Lord Darwin

[@Karl-ui6oe]

I love this channel, keep up the great work guys, Im already telling my classmates and teachers about this channel, really informative

[@rafsossa]

Nice video