He gained the distinction of being the first student to win the gold medal from this long established institution with a 100 percent pass rate, demonstrating the ability of an extraordinary scholar., and three years later in 1831 he began his most famous second voyage.This was the journey that carried the naturalist Charles Darwin on expedition to South America and the Galapagos Islands.Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream scientific community as the unifying theory of the life sciences. He was a man whose speculations of long ages of death and mutation offered an anti-Creator explanation for the diversity of life observed on earth.He has been elevated to demigod status and given a place of esteem in the public arena, where any ideas outside his outdated theory are systematically and unfairly expelled. Two centuries after his birth, it is time for Darwin to come off his throne long enough for us to examine the man behind the monkey. He attended boarding school at Shrewsbury School, and in October 1825 went to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He is a great person to talk to but you got to talk to him first and he will listen.An "award" given to people who contribute the most to the evolution of humanity by removing their genes from the gene pool.Throughout his life he had a strong sense of Christian duty and desire to protect life, especially the lives of fellow sailors, and he was a pioneer in the development of a system of storm warnings around Britain following the naval disaster, and was the first to produce and issue regular weather forecasts.Fitz Roy was born on July 5, 1805, at Ampton Hall, Suffolk, and trained at the Portsmouth based Royal Naval College, formerly the Royal Naval Academy founded in 1733.

He was later nominated to fellowship of the Royal Society for his hydrographic and chronographic survey, and was also chosen as the first Chief Statist of the newly formed Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade in the UK (Now the UK Meteorological Office).

Darwin was almost a complete novice, his experience based only on rudimentary geological studies, beetle-collecting, and the dissection of marine invertebrates.

which promoted uniformitarian concepts and heavily influenced Darwin's thinking.

Fitz Roy also became a more devout Christian and was later a major critic of the theory of evolution following the publication of Darwin's book in 1859.

The voyage of the Beagle was commissioned and organized by Admiral Francis Beaufort and left Plymouth on December 27, 1831.