Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin, the author of “The Origin of the Species,” one of the best-selling books of all time, was a scientist, naturalist, and geologist. After many years of diligent research, he concluded that all species shared a genetic origin and that the diverging pattern of evolution was the result of a process he called “natural selection.”

The Church and practically everyone else in the world mocked his idea. It was not accepted until much later when it came to be seen as the new orthodoxy. DNA research refuted the then-dominant religious theories and affirmed his evolution theory to be correct.