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The author had a Methodist upbringing as a child and teenager and had a good knowledge of Genesis and the Bible. He had a wide variety of finches in his birdcage. As a result, he became very interested in Darwin's writings when he read of his discovery that there are 14 different species of finches on the Galapagos Islands, all of which originated from a common ancestor. For him, Darwin was qualified to express his theories because he had studied medicine, theology, botany, geology and taxidermy. Darwin was appointed a naturalist on HMS Beagle and sailed to many locations including South America, Australia and the South Pacific. During his travels he reasoned that instead of being immutable, the species had gradually evolved from earlier simpler species in an unbroken descent from mono-cellular life. For the author, Darwin's most important factor was natural selection which, at its core, is the survival of the fittest. Darwin's writings incited great anger among the clergy and others, an example being that Man and the Anthropoid Apes must have a common ancestor. In researching this book, the author would take a statement of Darwin and see if he could cross reference it in the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. When there was a match he would write what Darwin said, and state what the Bible said in agreeance. Darwin's explanation of how evolution occurs is a considerable contribution to Science.

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