Also, I wonder how the church responded to some of Darwin’s theories about evolution. Similar to Galileo’s heliocentric theories, Darwin’s evolution is going to rub up a little against what the Church believes. For instance they could have easily said: if God is perfect, and everything He made was good, why would it have changed?

C: Reading about Darwin made me think of all of the prodigies and high acclaimed priests, scientists, etc. that we’ve studied in humanities, science, and math; they came to be known and praised for their achievements, and so did Darwin, but they didn’t come from the same background as Darwin at all: not deemed as the most academically talented, average, daydreaming.

I: I think it’s really interesting that through Darwin’s observations that “different, yet ecologically similar, animal species inhabited separated, but ecologically similar habitats around the globe” (pg. 451) we see a sort of pattern/consistency in the way that animals and habitats function, yet at the same time there are irregularities, like two species of the same animal living in the same region, animals not living where we’d expect them to, etc.