Newspaper article- Is Darwinism relevant in Today's Society?
The question that we asked the civilians of NSW is “Is Darwinism Relevant in Today's Society?”, and we had quite a wide range of different answers from all different people all over australia over the course of 2 weeks we had to travel and ask these questions.
We ironically interviewed some people in the streets of Darwin and we asked them what they think of the theory of Darwinism most of them laughed and one man even said “ At the time I'm sure Darwin believed that he was correct but nowadays you are gonna need some more evidence to attract the people's attention, people do not take your word for things anymore you need evidence and the understanding of the people to get your point across”. Others in the streets asked “does it really matter? I mean we are growing and we are mostly healthy I don't think many people would care whether it's a correct theory or not, as long as we are growing and our families are healthy the theory may as well be right just as it could be incorrect I'm not as fussed.”
Darwin himself spent a long time developing this theory and more than convincingly got the attention of the people back in his time, so why is it so difficult to grab the attention of people today? “There is a lack of evidence about this theory now and there are more people being acquainted with this theory then there was back then and more people means more evidence and more evidence means that you'll need to grab the attention of a large crowd obviously to spread the world and really get everyone interested, shouldn't be that hard considering we have the internet now I'm sure Mr Darwin would appreciate the internet back then.
In the Opinions of many, Darwinism must be further studied so it can grab the attention of everyone and really make a difference in our society and get people to change their minds on evolution and to believe in the words of Darwin who said, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. “Charles Darwin
We ironically interviewed some people in the streets of Darwin and we asked them what they think of the theory of Darwinism most of them laughed and one man even said “ At the time I'm sure Darwin believed that he was correct but nowadays you are gonna need some more evidence to attract the people's attention, people do not take your word for things anymore you need evidence and the understanding of the people to get your point across”. Others in the streets asked “does it really matter? I mean we are growing and we are mostly healthy I don't think many people would care whether it's a correct theory or not, as long as we are growing and our families are healthy the theory may as well be right just as it could be incorrect I'm not as fussed.”
Darwin himself spent a long time developing this theory and more than convincingly got the attention of the people back in his time, so why is it so difficult to grab the attention of people today? “There is a lack of evidence about this theory now and there are more people being acquainted with this theory then there was back then and more people means more evidence and more evidence means that you'll need to grab the attention of a large crowd obviously to spread the world and really get everyone interested, shouldn't be that hard considering we have the internet now I'm sure Mr Darwin would appreciate the internet back then.
In the Opinions of many, Darwinism must be further studied so it can grab the attention of everyone and really make a difference in our society and get people to change their minds on evolution and to believe in the words of Darwin who said, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. “Charles Darwin