EffectofDarwinism高级英语.pptVIP

The general idea of Darwinism : 1. species were not be created in their present form, but evolved from ancestral species . 2.it proposed a mechanism for evolution: natural selection;Darwin‘s influence on the development of biology has been immeasurable. The immediate effect of the publication of On the Origin of Species was to stimulate research in morphology（形态学）, embryology（胚胎学）, and paleontology（古生物学）to find evidence to support or refute Darwin’s view…….;☆Such distinguished scientists as Charles Lyell, Joseph Hooker, Asa Gray, Ernst Haeckel and Thomas Huxley accepted Darwin`s theory of evolution on its publication. ;Darwins theory of evolution met strong and immediate opposition from Christian theologians. They believed that Darwins theory contradicted the Scripture, did away with divine guidance and substituted an automatic natural mechanism for the Creators designed creation.;☆The theological opposition to Darwin`s theories at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford in 1869,when Wilberforce,Bishop of Oxford,attacked the leading exponent of Darwinism,the biologist Thomas Huxley,whose book Evolution and Ethics(1893)was translated into Chinese in 1897 by YanFu(严复)published under the title《天演论》。;Although Darwin did not himself attempt to apply the principle of natural selection to sociology,his demonstration of evolution by natural selection made a great impression on Spencer with unforumate results.;;