LOLOL.. You'd think at some point they would check the facts instead of getting their butts whipped.
English naturalist 1809–1882
Charles Darwin was the founder of modern evolutionary thought, and the developer, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, of the theory that natural selection is a principle driving force in evolution.
Darwin is generally recognized as the single greatest thinker in the history of biology, whose contributions provided the basis for understanding the immense diversity that characterizes the natural world.
Darwin was born February 12, 1809, into a wealthy English family. A lifelong interest in natural history led him to embark, at age twenty-two, on a five-year voyage to South America aboard the HMS Beagle as the ship's naturalist. Darwin collected a wealth of specimens and made observations of both living species and fossils he encountered. Darwin was particularly struck by similarities he observed between the species found on the Galapagos Islands off the western coast of South America, and species of the mainland.
He also noted differences and similarities among species found on the numerous islands of the Galapagos. The evidence suggested each species had not been independently formed by the Creator, but rather had diverged from a smaller group of common ancestors.
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Your reference is flat wrong.
Darwin did not develop biology at all.
Biology started in ancient Greece, around the 4th or 5th century BC, when Alcmaeon first began the practice of dissection to study anatomy.
Galen studied wounds in 2nd century AD.
Interest in developing education and the seeds for modern science took place during the so-called 'dark' ages, 8th to 15th century BC. It was during this time the concept of the Unversity was developed. Among the subject taught at these early schools was biology.
Leonardo da Vinci made his anatomical drawings by studying corpses 1489 through 1515.
The invention of the printing press and the use of woodcut drawings for it expanded the popularity of biology and the cataloging of various plants as well.
Vesalius further studies anatomy and was appointed a professor at the University of Padua in anatomy and surgery in 1537. He falsified some of the theories of Galen (who studied ape anatomy). He publishes a large reference work on anatomy in 1543.
Cesalpino developed a method of categorizing plants according the shape of their flowers, seeds, and fruits in 1583.
The first book on the circulation of blood was published in 1628 by Harvey.
The microscope was invented in 1661 by Malphigi, opening the door to studying bacteria.
Leeuwenhoek saw blood corpuscles for the first time and demonstrated that all life has a reproductive cycle in 1674.
Carl von Linné created the genus and species method of classification, still used today, in 1735.
William Smith begin his studies of paleontology in 1812 (Darwin was three years old at the time, hardly an influence on this work).
The Theory of Evolution is likewise just as old, and started in ancient Greece as well. Darwin did not create the Theory of Evolution.
The Theory of Creation also developed at this time among different cultures, even before the Israelites. Ancient Egypt helped to develop this theory through it's stories of the god Ra. In their case, the Theory of Creation used a god as the 'intelligence'.
What did Darwin do? He created the Theory of Natural Selection, which has been falsified. Still, he did note how species can adapt themselves to their surroundings. That creating a variety in species can occur naturally, not just by the hand of man. Basically, he showed that evolution does occur naturally, and not just by the hand of man.
Darwin did not develop biology. Neither did he develop the Theory of Evolution. Both biology and the Theory of Evolution was around long before Darwin himself ever was!
