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A 3 page paper which summarizes
chapter 14 of Charles Darwin’s “Origin of Species.” No additional sources cited.
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to make such conclusions, though he was the most noted. And, it is also interesting to note that amidst all the controversy then, as well as now, Darwin was a
very religious man who did not necessarily feel that any faith in evolution meant that one could not also have faith in God. The following paper summarizes chapter 14 of
his infamous work "Origin of Species," which is apparently the concluding chapter and thus illustrates many of his conclusions concerning his ideas. Chapter 14 Darwin begins this chapter by
stating that he is "thoroughly convinced...that species have been modified, during a long course of descent. This has been effected chiefly through the natural selection of numerous successive, slight, favorable
variations; aided in an important manner by the inherited effects of the use and disuse of parts; and in an unimportant manner, that is in relation to adaptive structures, whether
past or present, by the direct action of external conditions, and by variations which seem to us in our ignorance to arise spontaneously" (Darwin). He also notes, in that first
paragraph, that a statement of his has often been misinterpreted: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification.....Great is the power
of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. He then moves on to illustrate how commonly held beliefs were once under
sever questioning, stating, "The undulatory theory of light has thus been arrived at; and the belief in the revolution of the earth on its own axis was until lately supported
by hardly any direct evidence. It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life" (Darwin).
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