This book was very interested, yet difficult to read because of it's length and also because it was a work of fiction rather than non-fiction, like my other books were. Nate recommended that I read this book, and I was pretty interested in reading it because i've always been fascinated by natural selection and evolution and how species are formed due to their climates and other animals around them. One of the reasons why Nate probably recommended this to me was because when it was published, it caused a controversy between religion and science.
One thing that I liked about this was that Darwin doesn't know, nor try to know, everything about everything. He knows that some things are still a mystery. I also liked that his ideas combatted religious ideas by providing logic to counter argue what most religious people believe in.
Nate thought that because the book was so old, that it wasn't very relevant now in the sense that the wording is odd and it's more difficult to read, and I completely agree. One of the things he did find interesting, and I, as well, found it interesting- was the way that Darwin came up with his theories used today. With this book we got to take a closer look at how these were developed and what his thinking was behind those theories.
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