1. Charles Darwin
Myth vs. History
Michael D. Barton
http://thedispersalofdarwin.wordpress.com

2. OHSU Library, 4th floor, through April 21st

3. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/darwin/evolutionarytheory.html

4. OHSU Darwin materials on display

5. OHSU Darwin materials on display

6. OHSU Darwin materials on display

7. A very brief biography of Charles Darwin

8. Myths, misconceptions & misrepresentations
in the history of science

9. Two forms:
Accidental misinformation
vs.
Intentional misinformation

10. Darwin discovered evolution on the Galapagos
CLAIM: Charles Darwin set out on HMS Beagle seeking evidence for
evolution; or, Darwin had a eureka moment in the Galapagos Islands
when he observed the 13 species of finches and tortoises there

11. Darwin was not official naturalist
CLAIM: Charles Darwin, the world-renowned naturalist, was
actually not the official naturalist on HMS Beagle, but rather only a
gentleman companion for Captain Robert Fitzroy

12. Darwin was always a bearded old man
CLAIM: Darwin was most prolific as a naturalist and published his
major works as an old, bearded man

13. Darwin was always a bearded old man

14. Darwin was always a bearded old man

15. Darwin was always a bearded old man
1849
1842
1841
1853
1874
1859/60 1869
1881

16. Darwin was always a bearded old man

17. Darwin was always a bearded old man

18. Darwin was always a bearded old man

19. Darwin was not offered a knighthood
CLAIM: While many prominent scientists received a British
knighthood, Darwin was never knighted because the Anglican
Church considered his views on evolution too controversial

20. Darwin too afraid to publish his theory
CLAIM: Darwin, having developed his theory of evolution by
natural selection, sat on it for twenty years because he feared the
religious response

21. Darwin too afraid to publish his theory

22. Darwin advocated for eugenics
CLAIM: Darwin’s advocated for the practice of eugenics, and this
ultimately led to Hitler, the Nazis, and the Holocaust

23. Darwin advocated for eugenics

24. Darwin advocated for eugenics

25. Darwin advocated for eugenics

26. Darwin advocated for eugenics
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We
civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process
of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the
sick. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their
kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals
will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man.
Hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”
– Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)

27. Darwin advocated for eugenics
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive
commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our
utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the
maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill
to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination
has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to
small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one
who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be
highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care
wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of
man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the
instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but
subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely
diffused. Nor could we check our sympathy, if so urged by hard reason, without deterioration
in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an
operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were
intentionally to neglect the weak and helpless, it could only be for a contingent benefit, with a
certain and great present evil.” – Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)

28. Darwin recanted on his deathbed
CLAIM: On his deathbed in 1882, Darwin renounced his theory of
evolution and accepted Christ and was thus saved, so much for the
theory of evolution!

29. … and many more
Darwin did not steal ideas from the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and
incorporate them into his own work
Darwin did not coin the phrase “survival of the fittest”
On the Origin of Species did not sell out on its first day of release
Darwin did not give up Christianity because of the death of his daughter
Annie
Darwin did not, as claimed by antievolutionists, doubt his own theories
Karl Marx did not offer to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin
Darwin did not say: “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the
most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change”

30. Conclusion

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