God said: "Let there be light" and there is light.
God said: "The earth will give birth to living creatures, each according to its kind; livestock, insects, and wild beasts, each according to its kind". So God created wild animals, each according to its kind; livestock, according to its kind; all insects on the ground, according to its kind.
So the peculiar beetle that Darwin put in his mouth also jumped out of the mysterious and omnipotent hands of God. But Darwin picked up the beetle again and told the world with a great book: The world is not created by God.
This film shows the creative process and mental journey of its author Charles Robert Darwin before the publication of this shocking work. This is a film that takes Darwin down from the altar and de-symbolizes it. What we see is no longer the image of a Frankenstein fighting alone in the siege of religious theology, but a flesh and blood who loves his family. The man who can cry.
I will discuss some noteworthy points and my thoughts reflected in this movie from the following three perspectives.
1. Darwin’s academic research
films have repeatedly appeared in Darwin’s yard wooden dovecote, which Darwin invited people to build in his Darwin’s house outside of London. Someone looked at these pigeons specifically and responded to Darwin’s requests from time to time. Pigeons perform operations such as dissection, or selectively allow pigeons to mate and observe the variation of their offspring. This is to compare the morphological differences of different pigeons. This is very helpful for the study of animal origin and animal classification. I know that there was a pigeon fever in England in the 19th century, and sometimes the Queen sent pigeons to the pigeon race. Darwin’s loft had hundreds of pigeons in its heyday, and he proudly wrote to his friends, inviting them to see "the best pigeons in the UK" at his home. The publisher replied to Darwin after receiving "Origin of Species", mentioning that the manuscript of "Origin of Species" was difficult to understand and lacked evidence, and suggested that Darwin should change it into a popular book about pigeons. If Darwin had listened to the editor's opinion at the time, then what we have now may be a copy of "The Origin of Pigeons". However, it can also be seen how much influence these pigeons have on Darwin’s academic research and leisure life.
Darwin’s daughter Anne likes to listen to her father telling Jenny’s story. Jenny is a gorilla in London Zoo. Darwin observes its expression and finds that this is the same as his first child in the baby when he was born, especially facial expressions. They are all surprisingly similar. I think this is also one of the reasons that inspired Darwin’s idea of "the origin of man is the orangutan". In the movie, I saw Jenny dressed in clean clothes and looked like his daughter in Darwin’s arms. Darwin shook hands with it and played with it. It is not in the slightest way that researchers now can express some opinions by looking at animals through glass windows. I think only Darwin is the real academic research.
There is a very harmonious and beautiful scene in the movie where Darwin's family went to the beach to play. He took a few children to watch the rocks and told them that the sand deposited here was a sign of a strong storm that occurred here millions of years ago. In Darwin's "Origin of Species", there is an example that "walks along the coast formed by not very hard rocks and pays attention to the cutting process of it is beneficial" [Darwin: "Origin of Species"], These records all show that Darwin was good at observing various signs and used to record in daily life. These records not only enriched his academic writings and persuasively, but also became important materials for future generations to study him. It can also be seen that Darwin's extensive research in scientific research.
2. Darwin's Attitudes to Religion and Belief When
talking about this issue, one has to talk about the social background and religious atmosphere at that time. Both the Columbus voyage and the Martin Luther Reformation meant that the entire framework of the origin and purpose of creation, life, the universe, and everything must be overturned, and a new explanation must be proposed. In the mid-nineteenth century, Britain became the first country in the world to complete industrialization. Economic development brought about changes in people's minds and thoughts. It was impossible for the church to implement dictatorship, so scientists would not repeat Bruno's tragedy.
Under the influence of multiple factors, I simply divided Darwin's attitude towards religion into the following time periods according to his life experience:
1. When he was a child, Darwin was educated in traditional ideas, believed in the Bible, and also studied theology at Cambridge University to become a pastor.
2. At the age of 22, he started a scientific expedition on the "Beagle". During this time, Darwin collected a large amount of first-hand biological and geological data and recorded them all. This investigation had a great impact on Darwin's thinking: he began to doubt the theory of species invariance. This skepticism became more and more obvious after Darwin got married and had children. In many ways, he revealed his skepticism and uncooperative attitude towards religion. It is also expressed in the movie: Family pray before meals. When thanking God, Darwin just sits awkwardly at one end of the table holding a knife and fork and waits for the end of the prayer; the family goes to church and everyone is singing hymns, only Darwin is the one. The person closed his mouth.
When his daughter Anne was ill (there is no exact record, but according to research, it is supposed to be tuberculosis, which was an incurable disease at the time), Darwin showed some beliefs in religion, which is mainly manifested in his prayers to the Virgin and promises to God. As long as Annie gets better, she believes in God for the rest of her life. This period is very short, so I have to wonder if Darwin really puts hope in God at this time, or is frightened by what the spa therapist told him: Unless you have faith, the water in the world will not cure you.
Anne finally passed away in 1851, which had a great influence on Darwin. Since then, he began to lean towards skepticism. We cannot say that Darwin has no faith since then, because Darwin has only lost his religious beliefs, and he has other spiritual sustenance; nor can we say that Darwin is an atheist. He himself denied this, but I think agnosticism is correct. A more accurate description of his mind.
With the continuous development of philosophy and the deepening of people's understanding of Darwin, many belief assumptions about Darwin have also emerged. For example, the theory of evolution is regarded as a kind of fundamentalist theology, or a tool to maintain scientific orthodoxy. These simplified symbolic titles have different inferences and evidences. I think that with the metaphysicalization of humanities science research Natural sciences cannot avoid this trend, but the spiritual and material wealth brought to us by Darwin and The Origin of Species is incomparable.
3. Darwin and his family
Darwin's wife, Emma, was a cousin one year older than him. She had 10 children and 3 of them died. Many people attribute the tragedy of the death of their three children to the close marriage between Darwin and Emma. Darwin in the movie also thought Emma said: "Maybe we shouldn't get married because our blood is too close." The eldest daughter, Annie, died of tuberculosis when she was 10 years old, but penicillin, which was used to treat bacterial infections, was discovered and put into use more than half a century later. At that time, the popular medicines contained heavy metals such as mercury and arsenic. Another treatment method mentioned in the movie is hydrotherapy. According to my research, the basic functions of hydrotherapy are to promote blood circulation, metabolism, reduce pain, and eliminate edema. These are not helpful to Annie's symptoms. The second daughter, Mary, died after living for three weeks. Medicine at the time could be said to be extremely underdeveloped. Newborn deaths can be said to be not unexpected. The youngest son Charles died of scarlet fever when he was two years old. Scarlet fever was a common fatal infectious disease at the time. His good friend Huxley also had a child who died of scarlet fever. In addition, Darwin's other children are very accomplished, so we cannot call Darwin's marriage a failure just by looking at one conclusion. The scene that touched me the most in the movie was that Darwin handed the manuscript of "The Origin of Species" to his wife Emma for disposal. The pure Christian finally asked Darwin to send the manuscript to the publishing house for publication. The phrase "May God forgive us" completely made me feel the greatness of this woman Emma. This sentence is not a satire of Darwin's opposition to the creation of the world, but it just allows us to see the loosening of creationism that the church has been preaching and Emma's support for Darwin.
I think the most reflected in the movie should be the feelings between Darwin and his daughter Anne. From the beginning of the film, Darwin ignored the photographer's reproach to tell a story to his daughter who was taking pictures; Anne was punished to kneel to her knees for arguing with the teacher about the existence of dinosaurs in class. However, after Anne's death, Darwin's thoughts of Anne filled his world: there was also the scorpion crawling into Anne's photo, and the voice of Anne shouting to his father in the formalin water, crushing the culture bottle and escaping the little boy. Bats... Annie's pink dress disappeared at the end of the smog alley, but Darwin could not find her. Hearing hallucinations and hallucinations flooded Darwin's life. He was in distress and began to take spa treatments again, but with little success.
Finally, it was his wife Emma who changed Darwin's predicament. They had a big fight, conflicts about reality, about Anne, and about confession. But time never goes back to the past, Emma chooses: Even if it is tomorrow, I will still marry you. Darwin finally cheered up, he began to tell stories to the children and mingle with the children.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that two young people came to Darwin's house to urge him to write a book shortly after the beginning of the film. These two people are Hook and Huxley, who are also famous in history. I think these two actors have shown their expectations of Darwin and the theory of evolution very well. They have the charm of real people. The film is still very rigorous in the actors, and the excellent acting skills of the actors are also impressive. admire. After all, it is a film work, and its scientific rigor has yet to be investigated. I tried to find out some flaws in the timing and scientific theory in some movies. There are only a few clues, but there is not enough time to continue the investigation, so I won't repeat it here.
The movie stopped abruptly after Darwin sent the manuscript away. The final scene is the back of him taking his daughter home. The scene is calm and serene. Compared with the revolution caused by the manuscript, it shows Darwin as a husband, as a father, and as a polymath. Full image.
I think that Genesis can be changed like this: God said: If you want someone, the world begins to evolve.
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