Darwin, most famous for his later works on theories of evolution, was commissioned early in life as a naturalist on HMS Beagle expeditions in the early 1800s.
What? Why? How can you not like Darwin? His work contains thousands of years of ideas about creation on their head.His theory of evolution revolutionized the field of Biology and the Anthropology.
Louisiana passed a law that requires all schools that teach the theory of evolution to teach creationism alongside it as an alternative theory: creationism being the theory that God created man whole without any evolution.
He had several visits from Charles Darwin, following his epic voyage on the Beagle and whist he was writing his book “On The Origin of Species” whose theory of evolution was to rock the worlds of science and religion.
The religious types like to believe that we were born from god, from the garden of Eden, while the sciency types embraced Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.