Portrait of Benjamin Wiker The Darwin Myth: The life and lies of
Charles Darwin
THE DARWIN
MYTH: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin is a book on factual and relevant
information about the famous naturalist’s life and times (his real and ‘honest’
biography). Although his theory on Natural Selection was considered a threat to the civilized world, Darwin is still perceived as one of the key personalities to have strongly made his share of contribution to modern science. His real life highlights have all
truly manifested in him as per his undertaken long voyages on
board of the sailing ship, H.M.S Beagle, to lead his in-depth research on
plants, insects, animals, and other species found across the globe; namely in the following countries: Tierra
Del Fuego, Brazil, Uruguay, The Falkland Islands, Galapagos Islands, New
Zealand, Australia, South Africa, etc. Benjamin Wiker gives a whole new
perspective on why? when? how? Charles Darwin became known as the father of his
masterpiece, “
Origin of Species”. Wiker gives true facts and information about the
people and important personalities who helped Darwin in the process of his
journey towards marking his name in the history of mankind.
The naturalist's successful display of the evolution of species was the result of his profound studies
on: anatomy of different species, transmutationism, Geology, origin of species,
evolution of species, natural selection of specific breeds, the doctrine behind
natural selection, and, anti-theistic views on the impact of evolution on species. Wiker insists that Darwin’s strong moral convictions on his views
about God and about God’s ties to all life-forms on our planet, led him to
create a structural concept between science and the world of the theists.
Benjamin Wiker is truly magnificent when he stresses on many factual details by demonstrating that the famous naturalist was a man who had lots of moral values with his
humility, his fatherly affection for his children, his fulfilling of duties as
a perfect husband, his physical traits, his views on the Anglican church and
Christianity, and, his influential role in the instating of an ideal known to
us as ‘Social Darwinism’. Christianity and Darwinism, atheism and theism, and, Darwinism
on scientific, philosophical, moral, and theological grounds—are presented in
this book of Benjamin Wiker’s with so much intensity and thoroughness that it
concludes without any doubts that Charles Darwin took all, if not, almost all
the attributes for his “
Origin of Species” to himself, and to himself alone. The
biographer also emphasizes on Darwinism and its comparison and contrast to
Nazism, The Bible and its ties to the contradictory notions with the creation
of human races; and finally, the most admired of Charles Darwin’s literature is
presented with a vivid acknowledgment of his much liked Shakespearean masterpieces. Wiker has hereabout provided a concise and complete biography of
the naturalist and scientist, Charles Darwin.
The Darwin Myth: The life and
lies of Charles Darwin is a biography with the picks on minute details left out by
previous biographers of the man whose contribution to Geology is quite well-recognized to this present day, and who ironically held a one and only degree, that of a Bachelor of Arts in liberal studies on pre-divinity.
