This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin's ideas have influenced ...

"I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible." So 19-year-old Charles charts a new career path. Darwin will spend three years at Cambridge University ...

and on the other side are fundamentalist atheists who claim that Darwin's theory rules out the possibility of God. Philosopher and theologian Conor Cunningham declares that it's time to set the ...

The Charles Darwin bicentennial celebrates the man who recognized natural selection and changed the world's views on evolution. However, his contributions to geology should not be overlooked.

Darwin described writing it as like 'living in Hell'. He dreaded losing his reputation, as his grandfather Erasmus had. Charles did draw fierce criticism from the Church, and from some parts of ...

Many historical figures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has ...

Before Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory about evolution ... As well as mapping the distribution of coral reefs, Darwin worked out why different reefs grew where they did, including ...

Charles Darwin embarked on a five-year voyage aboard HMS Beagle in 1831 ... In 2006, the Museum Library acquired the largest collection of works by and about Darwin in existence. Although Darwin did ...

But after Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species in 1859, the theory of evolution became one of the most controversial topics of the time. When American paleontologist O.C. Marsh ...

A scientist has shed new light on the origins of Charles Darwin's "abominable mystery ... I have sometimes speculated whether there did not exist somewhere during long ages an extremely isolated ...