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Why was Charles Darwin the ‘most dangerous man in England’ in 1859?
Below are some statements explaining why Charles Darwin was the most dangerous man in
England. Can you place them in the correct chronological order?
By the time Charles Darwin
died in 1882 millions of
people believed that God
did not exist.
By 1882 many people
believed that science had
disproved Christianity.
In 2011 people still argue
about whether the theory of
evolution or the Bible has the
right explanation for how the
world was made.
In 1865 Robert FitzRoy
ended his life by cutting his
throat.
If Darwin was right that man
was an ape then there was
no reason why man should
obey God or the Church.
Robert FitzRoy was so angry
he waved a Bible above his
head and shouted ‘The Book,
the Book’ because Charles
Darwin had challenged the
Bible.
The Bible said that Adam
and Eve were specially
made by God.
Charles Darwin seemed to
suggest that man was just a
well-developed ape.
Darwin talked about ‘natural
selection’. Animals adapted
and changed to suit the world
around them. New creatures
developed more or less by
accident.
Darwin found fossils of sea
shells high up in the Andes
mountains. He found out
that a violent earthquake
had happened recently and
pushed the land up out of
the sea.
When Darwin returned to
England from the
Galapagos Islands he
decided not to become a
vicar and continued his
studies as a naturalist.
Darwin published his ideas
about how animals changed
over time in The Origin of the
Species in 1859.
In 1830 Captain Robert
FitzRoy left Plymouth
Harbour in a small ship
called HMS Beagle.
Sharing his cabin was a
young man called Charles
Darwin.
Charles Darwin’s job on the
voyage to South America
was to gather information
about the animals, plants
and rocks he saw wherever
the ship took him.
In 1830 Charles Darwin had
left Cambridge University and
was expecting to become a
vicar. He had always been
interested in nature.
By 1830 several scientists
had studied rocks and
fossils and said the world
had taken thousands of
years to develop. They
called this slow change
evolution.
When Charles Darwin
visited the Galapagos
Islands he noticed how
animals such as the giant
tortoises were slightly
different on each island.
Captain FitzRoy told Darwin
that the skeletons of strange
creatures were the animals
that missed Noah’s Ark at the
time of the Flood.