Who am I ??

Two day before Valentine Day , Google came with a logo which many lovers thought of as it is a symbol of love showing love birds but rather it was Darwin's finches dedicated to the 200^th anniversary of the man who gave the theory of evolution. He is having a relevant part in our lives, whenever we talk about faith and stand for religion, we are against Darwin. Whenever we say we all are God's creation then Darwin opposes us saying if all are God's creation then why he created some humans black and some white, some long heighted and some with short heights. Thus, Darwin comes in our life by some way or other.

Darwin was of very inquisitive mind from his childhood. He used to collect insects of various species in his house's backyard. Darwin was forced to study medical science but he never felt it as his cup of tea, later his father sent him to become a priest but there also he never felt as if he was made for it. His burning zeal to know how species evolved led him to a legendary voyage that unravelled the mystery of nature's evolutionary tale. If apple gave idea to Newton for gravitation, similarly the finches at Galapagos Islands struck the mind of Darwin to think why all the finches have different beaks and colours. He concluded that all finch species (a total of 13 were on that island) have different beaks because they used to have different food habits in-spite of living at the same place. The shape and size of beaks were adapted to the food they eat and from there the unravelling evolutionary story of other species too commenced.

POSTMORTOM OF DARWINISM

The Darwin theory told that species developed favourable features in order to adapt to their surroundings no matter whether they it is weak or strong. Weaker too can survive if adapts and stronger may wipe out if doesn’t adapts.

Spencer interpreted it in a harsh way stating it as “The Survival of the Fittest” i.e. only who is strong can live, rest don’t deserve life. Some fanatics and dictators took it a sense that caused world wars and slaughter of humanity all due to state the best survives. Another misinterpretation of Darwin’s theory is “Social Darwinism”, it states that all personal and social problems were inherited. The proponents of social Darwinism believed poverty and many other social ills were the result of bad genes. Adolf Hitler’s racial theories were based on social Darwinism. “The stronger has to rule and must not mate with the weaker,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. “Only the born weakling can consider this cruel.” Social Darwinism was popular among many intellectuals in the nineteenth century, but has since been rejected. Subsequent research has undermined rather than supported the theories of Social Darwinism.

The religious and communal leaders took it in their manner by declaring a community majority and one minority and stating a caste or creed as upper class and other backward class, just for sake of their vote banks and nothing else, thus depriving some sections from achieving basic necessities of life. The important point that missed in this segregation theory is that why we segregate, if we are different then we need to understand why we are different and what is the level of this distinction. The racial, physical, cultural difference is all due to nature and one’s origins but humanity never has such things and is far above any distinction by nature and this is not to be forgotten at any case.

Finally I want to conclude that this Darwin’s birth anniversary be not be remembered after a certain days but the important is the conclusion of this man’s ideas about nature and its creations. Distinction need to be understood, it must not be a weak link of society and should be taken in account with a broader perspective rather than taking it with a narrow mindset and segmenting society on its name.