| | Charles Darwin's work set off a great deal of controversy. And Darwin closely watched the public's response to his ideas while his allies [[Thomas Huxley]] and [[Joseph Hooker]] advocated his ideas within the scientific community. For example, [[Richard Milner]] wrote regarding Darwin in the 2002 issue of Scientific American in a article entitled [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B62D6-7E63-1D7E-90FB809EC5880000# "Putting Darwin in his Place"], that Darwin ''"clipped, catalogued and indexed hundreds of offprints, about 350 reviews and 1,600 articles, as well as satires, parodies and Punch caricatures, with which he filled hefty scrapbooks..."'' And it appears as if the criticism of his work may have troubled Darwin. Milner in the aforementioned article, wrote that after [[Charles Lyell]] published a very weak endorsement of Darwin's Antiquity of Man, ''"Darwin's disappointment brought on 10 days of vomiting, faintness and stomach distress". Also when anatomist St. George Mivart made a strong attack on The Descent of Man, Milner wrote it "triggered two months of "giddiness" and inability to work..." '' | | Charles Darwin's work set off a great deal of controversy. And Darwin closely watched the public's response to his ideas while his allies [[Thomas Huxley]] and [[Joseph Hooker]] advocated his ideas within the scientific community. For example, [[Richard Milner]] wrote regarding Darwin in the 2002 issue of Scientific American in a article entitled [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B62D6-7E63-1D7E-90FB809EC5880000# "Putting Darwin in his Place"], that Darwin ''"clipped, catalogued and indexed hundreds of offprints, about 350 reviews and 1,600 articles, as well as satires, parodies and Punch caricatures, with which he filled hefty scrapbooks..."'' And it appears as if the criticism of his work may have troubled Darwin. Milner in the aforementioned article, wrote that after [[Charles Lyell]] published a very weak endorsement of Darwin's Antiquity of Man, ''"Darwin's disappointment brought on 10 days of vomiting, faintness and stomach distress". Also when anatomist St. George Mivart made a strong attack on The Descent of Man, Milner wrote it "triggered two months of "giddiness" and inability to work..." '' |
| − | Charles Darwin's illness afflicted him for most of his working life. [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/darwins_illness.asp] Most medical experts believe that Darwin's illness was psychobiological or psychological in origin.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Darwin%27s_Illness</ref> | + | Charles Darwin's illness afflicted him for most of his working life. <ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/darwins_illness.asp<ref> Most medical experts believe that Darwin's illness was psychobiological or psychological in origin.<ref>http://creationwiki.org/Darwin%27s_Illness</ref> |