David Gentleman: Charles Darwin Centenary/Galapagos Birds

Artist: David Gentleman
1930 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1982
Image Size: 7.75 by 12.25 inches
Overall Size: 16.5 by 14 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

Very few scientists have had Charles Darwin's gift of perception, that unique ability to analyze the everyday world with a fresh and penetrating eye. Still fewer possess his open-minded willingness to ignore preconceptions in order to test a revolutionary idea. Darwin's theory of evolution -- explained in his 1859 work The Origin of the Species -- shocked nineteenth-century scientists, who explained all puzzling facts about nature as actions of an omniscient Creator. Initially, "Darwinism" was equalled to blasphemy and atheism, an attitude that has prevailed even until today. Darwin was a deeply moral man but not a profoundly religious one. Indeed, the turmoil his work caused amazed him. To Darwin, recognition of evolution was in no way incompatible with belief in God. Today, the twentieth- century view of science is so firmly based on evolution that it is hard to understand how big a blow the first appearance of Darwin's theory struck at most scientists' reputations, as well as at their religious beliefs. It took England's leading zoologists, botanists, and geologists to understand that the theory of evolution indeed made sense despite the scholarly chaos.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Great Britain 26p Charles Darwin stamp issued February 10, 1982.

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