Photo Gallery Darwin at 150
When Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859, it shattered the prevailing conviction that animal and plant species were rigid and unchangeable.
Read the article: "Has Darwin Failed? ".
The United States ranks with highly Catholic nations like Mexico and Italy as one of the most religious countries in the West, according to a recent survey.
Only a small fraction of Americans believe humans came about through the process of evolution with no help at all from God.
German attitudes from the year 2001.
Darwin's voyage on the "HMS Beagle" to the Galapagos was vital to his theory, because so many species could be observed in such a small, remote habitat. Like this pink iguana ...
... or the Darwin finch, which came in 14 closely related varieties. Recent research suggests that Darwin or Galapagos finches have evolved even in the century and a half since Darwin made his observations.
