Charles Darwin was a man of science. He had a true passion for everything related to both plants and animals. Darwin made many contributions to the field of science, but his main contribution that he is best known for involves his theories about evolution, or more specifically, how species tend to change over long periods of time through a process called natural selection. Natural selection is defined by Darwin as the “preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of harmful variations” (Jacobus 900). Although many of his theories have now been embraced by the scientific community as natural laws in motion, much controversy remains as to whether or not his ideas should be perceived as true scientific laws. Despite the discovery of a huge amount of evidence, many people still believe that evolution is exactly what Darwin called it: a theory and nothing more. Charles Darwin, born in 1809, was raised by his two Christian parents. Naturally, young Charles openly embraced the ideas of Christianity and adopted many religious practices into his life. By the 1830s, Darwin had developed a strong desire to study natural history and natural theology, or anything to do with divine design in nature. In 1831 Darwin was invited to take the trip of a lifetime: to travel around the world studying the different types of life of Mother Nature. At the age of 22, thus began Darwin's 5-year journey on the ship HMS Beagle with his fellow scientific scholars. I consider my father to be an intelligent man. He thinks critically and is good at solving problems. Since he majored in mathematics and understands complicated theoretical equations, he is great at looking at the evidence and coming up with an accurate... middle of paper... trace back to a common ancestor from inanimate matter. Recently, I decided this was a good one. idea to ask my father why exactly he thought humans hadn't evolved from primates, especially taking into account the absurd amount of scientific evidence humanity has discovered over the past few centuries. While I was curious to know if his opinions on the subject had changed, I had a good idea that he hadn't changed at all. I was right. Everything I perceived as incontrovertible evidence I shot at him – natural selection, the discovery of fossils of ancient humans, similarities between humans and primates – was immediately dismissed without much thought or questioning. I became progressively frustrated until I decided to abandon the topic entirely. I came to the conclusion that my father had creationism in mind and no one, including me, could change his mind about it.