What did Darwin belive about race and evolution?

Question

Someone asked something simular to this but it was poorly worded, offended many people and was deleated by yahoo. Personaly, I don't believe in evolution. I'm not asking what you think. Just what Darwin thought.

Answer 1

Darwin wrote a book called 'The Descent of Man.' He devotes a whole chapter to racial differences. Darwin points out where physical traits are similar and where they are different, and how differences in social practices, customs, and technological advances seem to have a greater effect on the evolution of modern humans than natural selection. Much of his writing is a review of other people's scientific works along with observations made by Darwin in his world travels.

Answer 2

Darwin never mentioned race, as a matter of fact he never even discussed humans. People who read his books about his theory of evolution took his ideas and began theorizing on their own. He wrote about small animals, lizards and finches that lived on the Galapogus islands. Also as a side note...Darwin was the son of a priest, he went to school to become a priest but changed his major to the sciences. Several times in his books he credits evolution to a Higher Power. He was not out to prove God didn't create but rather God is still in the process of creating.

Answer 3

His published statements on race show a typical, if perhaps slightly more enlightened, man of his times. He was not racist per sey, but he was part of a culture that was. In terms of that culture, he was less racist than most, but in terms of our cultures, he'd been seen as more racist than most of us.
http://home.att.net/~troybritain/articles/darwin_on_race.htm

Silly people like to quote his discarded subtitle for Origin of the species and claim he was talking about human races. Indeed, by races, Darwin meant things like the "race" of splay-footed racing pidgeons as opposed to flat footed ones. He used it synonomously with breed in his discussion of pidgeons and dogs, but discarded the term in the end.

Answer 4

Darwin simply observed different species ability to adapt, change or evolve (whichever word you choose to use) to changes in its environment. It has nothing to do with race, only the way human beings adapted to their different environments.

Answer 5

Charles Darwin believed in Spontaneous Generation.. I read a book which talked about his 'The Selfish Gene' book, which doesn't make sense at all. I wouldn't go near his books.. they will fill your head full of absolute rubbish.. stick with God.

Answer 6

www.charlesdarwinresearch.org/reb.html