Darwin's Simplification of Language on his On the Origin of Species

Darwin’s Simplification

In his book, On the Origin of Species, he has written in such a way that any audience can quite simply understand and grasp his concept of evolution. Charles Darwin, a man of God and science, changed the way people see the world today. The sequence in which the chapters were published, even the language he uses can be seen as a way for others to clearly comprehend his theories. Even though Darwin did not simply disregard religion as a whole, his evolutionary theory offers and alternative to the theological creation ideas of the era.

In order to gently ease his religious and creationist audience at the time, into accepting his ideas, Darwin begins his book with describing the evolutions of animals and plants that are created and affected by man. This is, what he calls, the domestication of a species, the changes that we as humans choose to create. The domestication of specific species, of animals or plants, is to apply specific characteristics viewed as favorable to others, or necessary to thrive, together. People have cross bred certain plants that can produce particular vegetation with others plants that can withstand different climate conditions. Doing this creates a new plant, either to grow more vegetation, or to be given more of a chance of sprouting under diverse climates. This has also been done with animals. People have cross bred some wild animals with tame ones for their various reasons. Such as luxury or necessity, by wanting of the size of a certain variety, quality of fur, even their ability to be trained, animals have been bred to ensure these different attributes be combined together. This still goes on today. Some people are favorable to mixed breeds of dogs to obtain a specific color from o...

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..., he beings with a more known and sensible topic, describing the part man plays in evolution, to gradually keep his readers understanding his ideas. He uses terms and descriptions that can easily be followed. Since humans need to feel safe, closely relates to how unaccepting of change they are, this is why Darwin approaches his theory in the way he does, to not rattle the idea of safety, because humans want to hold on to the ancient ideas of life. In which, he can relate religion and science, also becoming such a radical influence to all.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin Species. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.