Explain why Charles Darwwin theory is important?

Answer 1

His theory wasn't on evolution per se it was about survival - Natural Selection better known as The Survival of the Fittest - meaning the weakest members of a pack/tribe etc die off or are killed off and the strongest members survive. This allows the packs strongest to mate and create new members with the best/strongest traits etc.

Mankind is the only species that doesn't really follow this thoery because we find ways to keep the weaker members of society alive. It can be said that if we left things up to mother nature - the darwin theory would naturally thin out the herd so to speak and the weakest humans would die off due to hunger, disease, etc. and those remaining would be better off as food supplies, resources etc. wouldn't be spread as thin as they are trying to keep everyone going artifiically. The world wouldn't be over populated.

You may have heard of the Darwin Awards - an internet/e-mail thing that comes around every now and again - it usually a bunch of stories of people who are killed doing extremely stupid things - point being they are weak and died because of it and they should be killed off because their stupidity shouldn't be bred back into the gene pool making more stupid people.

basicially the theory says if you're weak physically & mentally the pack is better off without you - you'll only weaken the pack further - kinda like a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link...

Answer 2

It is important on 2 levels. For one, it is a documented scientific explanation for where we came from, one of the Big Questions people have always wondered about. The time chains it supplies are also useful in historical geology and archaeology to provide a timeline.

I think it is even more important as an early example of the Scientific Method. Darwin did not simply get an idea and write it up, he first ran across lots and lots of unexplained phenomena, catalogued it, and tried different possibilities. He spent years examining the evidence he had to develop his theory. As a result, when he released it, even though it was shocking and very unwelcome to some people, there really was not a lot people could say against it - OK, *reasonable* people who take the time to *understand* what it says.

Just like Copernicus, Darwin changed Man's view of his place in the universe. In a way it was a "perfect storm" of a major theory, developed properly, in a very controversial area, that combined to make it such a cultural icon.

Answer 3

Charles Darwin was a drop out..his father wanted him to be a lawyer, but darwin would rather study about nature...

Charles Darwin did alot, he came up with the theory of evolution after studying many organisms from the Galapagos Islands. His theory says that everything has evolved, and the not only God has created change. He says that as the earth changes organisms adapt to their environment to survive, and as we change the environment changes...Natural selection a process of evolution goes like this: [1]Overproduction [2]Genetic Variation [3]Struggle To Survive and [4]successful reproduction...

Charles Darwin soon realized that mutations, fossils and many other things can show off how things have changed over a long period of time, so they can see how things evolved/changed over time which is evolution....

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Answer 4

Darwin's theory of evolution, which he called Natural Selection, is important because it describes the process by which organisms change over time. It was not the first theory of evolution, but it is the one that has stood up to rigid scientific testing and has been accepted for over 130 years as the main explaination for how life evolves.

Answer 5

I skimmed over the answers and I didn't see this mentioned but I think it is important (there are some other good answers already so I will only try to add rather than repeat). Darwinian evolution is useful in that it predicts a relationship between form and biological function. For instance, if we had never seen a giraffe before, we would likely be able to accurately predict its eating habits. The form of the long neck predicts a function (eating from tree tops). This is a simplistic example but it demonstrates the usefulness of the concept.

This concept can be applied from the microbial level up to and including the behavior of populations.

Answer 6

He came up with a simple explantion for the variety of life of Earth that explains the relatedness between organisms and postulated how structures could arise by subtle variation that game an advantage in survival and reproduction.

The theory changed biology from a descriptive discipline to an analytical science.

Answer 7

Darwin's theory of natural selection was the first reasonable idea about how species change over time. He based his ideas on careful observation. After all these years this theory still holds up ... it was that good. When you think about how remarkable that is, remember that Darwin was born on the very same day as Abraham Lincoln was born. Not just the same birthdate -- the same day in the same year.

Answer 8

The Evolution theory is a crock of lies, cover ups, and false propaganda. It has held mankind back from his true heritage for way too long, and brilliant scientists are now coming out in favor of discarding this preposterous, foolish and dangerous gibberish because not a single thing of it can be proven as actual fact, no matter who the self serving, self important, flatulent air bags who teach and promulgate it are.

I challenge just one of you evolutionists above to detail me one fact of Evolution without inserting if's, and's, or possibly's into your rhetoric, and I guarantee you that you cannot do it. The only thing that you so called evolutionists can prove to be a fact is that all the theories of evolution proves Creationism to be a fact.

It is very hard to admit the truth that you have been decieved all your life, have decieved others and refuse to let go of your most cherished but false and ignorant beliefs, ideas and preposterous theories!

Answer 9

Charles Darwin's Theory was on Evolution. How mankind came to be.

Answer 10

Charles Darwin has the only non religion based theory of how mankind came to be. that is what makes him important however Darwin himself had doubts to his own theory later in life