Analyzation of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Most Western scientists didn't reject the notion that God created humans in his own image and
likeness until the mid-nineteenth century. Until Charles Darwin arrived, they believed that all the
planet's beings were created by a divine force. Although some experts have speculated about the
species' evolution, the British naturalist was the first to provide evidence for how evolution may occur
through natural selection. His theory revolutionized biology by providing a fresh explanation for human
origins. Thus, it earned him one of history's biggest prominent scientists and philosophers, but he had to
go through a remarkable journey that included hundreds of experimentations and a 20-year period of
honing his theories.

Darwin was invited to join a large voyage as a naturalist when he was 22 years old while
attending at the University of Cambridge. He joined the HMS Beagle and traveled for nearly five years.
He traveled to several continents, beginning in South America, and returned with dozens of living
specimens, graphics, and relics. One of the earliest evidence he had concerning evolution came from
these fossils. When he saw the remnants of a mylodon—a gigantic mammal comparable to the sloth—
he realized that the resemblance was most likely not coincidental. There had to be a connection. When
Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands, he saw enormous tortoises that resided on neighbouring islands
but had distinct morphological traits in each island's damp sections with plentiful vegetation. In the
islands with a drier environment, the turtles had a short neck and a dome-shaped shell. These had a
saddle-like shell that ran the length of their neck. When Darwin returned, he spent time examining how
animal breeders and keepers crossed species to generate new types. The artificial selection made by
man was crucial to the success of that investigation.  Darwin concluded that the wilderness was
undoubtedly subjected to the same kind of competition, but he couldn't explain how it worked till he
read the piece of Thomas Robert Malthus, an 18th-century influential economist. In a demographic
essay, Malthus predicted that as Europe's population grew, it would outstrip existing food supply,
resulting in a struggle for survival. This concept aided Darwin in his explanation of how evolution
happens in nature. There is a fight for survival wherein the strongest species is not always the one that
survives, but rather the one who adapts best to the environment in which it lives. A living thing will be
more active at reproducing if it possesses any characteristic that aids survival. Those who do not adjust
will extinct without having children. The species who have the best chances of reproducing pass on their
traits, lineages, and so on until these variations form a new variety. The reason why the Galapagos
tortoises' variations are a result of evolution in a drier climate. Longer necks could readily access the
shrubs for food, whereas those living in wet regions could consume grasses and secure themselves from
danger due to relatively shorter necks and dome-shaped shells. All species, including humans, were not
created independently, according to Darwin, but rather evolved from a common ancestor.

Darwin had written hundreds of pages in the twenty years after his journey, but none of
them had been published. He sought their unfalsifiable evidence since he believed his idea would raise a
disturbance, but then everything changed when he got a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, a fellow
naturalist and enthusiast, informing him that he had came to the same conclusion. Natural selection was
the driving force behind evolution. The two naturalists agreed to produce a joint letter outlining their
findings. However, Darwin's book On the Origin of Species was published a year later. Darwin
revolutionized by demonstrating that diversification is the result of a biological mechanism that is
unaffected by God. Humans are on the same evolutionary level as all other organisms on the world, as
per Darwin. Scientific advancements have supported Darwin's hypothesis, as well as the Catholic Church
has accepted evolution as compatible with faith decades later, over 150 years ever since Darwin's theory
was first published. We understand that evolution is real and that is constantly changing, sometimes
radically, and that we must adapt to keep up with it.