Essay On Darwin Misconception

One misconception of Darwinian evolutionary theory is that evolution is at a random chance. Natural selection is actually the stated opposite of random chance (Ryan p. 50). Although genetic drift and mutation play roles in evolution as causing chance events that result in a change in population, that does not mean that evolution as a whole is due to randomness. Natural selection is the greatest force of modern evolution, and is completed by the passing on of successful genes, not by random assortment or acquiring of successful genes. Another misconception is that Darwin “discovered evolution”. Darwin could not have developed the ideas he did without previous writings on biological changes and “evolution” written by Arabs, Indians, Chinese, and even ancient Greeks (Lewis & Jurmain p. 20). The actuality of it is that these notions in ancient history never were formulated into a …show more content…
People in his century did not want to accept that God may not have been the ultimate creator of humans, but none-the-less his theory has yet to be disproven. The last (but definitely not the only) misconception is that Darwin explained it all. This misconception may have come from the fact that he wrote a book about the origin of species, but he certainly did not cover the origin of all species. Darwin does not address where or how life could have started on Earth, he simply traces back through time to the connection of species that live today, and possibly the realization that the species that are alive today were once not the same. His book simply states how species change over time, enforcing his idea of natural selection. He does, however, address that all species most likely have a common ancestor, but leaves out the most important question of where that ancestors origin