Nonetheless, Darwin continued with the research that Lamarck had begun and in doing so revolutionized the world in biology and staged the scientific discovery of evolution and the origins of life. .
Darwin began his undertaking upon a five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle, which he was to collect, experiment, and journal on a variety of new species. One of many extraordinary discoveries was a group of finches now known as "Darwin's Galapagos Island Finches" (RIT, n.d.). The beak of various finches varied in size making it easier and/or more difficult to break open the shell of a seed. Darwin's premise concluded that finches revealed an evolutionary process in which only the fittest or those finches that had the right size beak would be able to obtain a food supply while those finches that did not would become extinct. Darwin and his predecessor, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), would transcend the term evolution to mean "natural selection" (Waggoner, 1996). The idea supposes that the finch with the correct size beak would have ample food supply in order to survive while those that did not would become extinct. Interesting enough and believable, however, Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), who is recognized as the father of botany, published a vast amount of scientific papers revealing a systemized classification of birds and animals (Graham, et al., 1986). Two important points to confer is that Linnaeus derived his scientific evidence from the foundation of the Bible "earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good (Genesis 1:12 NASB 1995). Moreover, Genesis 1:21 states: "God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good" (NASB, 1995).
