When I finally
finished Into the Jungle, I was overjoyed because as much as I love learning
about new things science related, I couldn’t stand to read more and more about
scientific facts and how evolution was brought to be. Don’t get me wrong, it
was very interesting, but it just got really old after a while because it told
about 9 different scientists and their different contributions to how evolution
was first discovered.
Some
parts that I did like, was when it told the story of how the different scientist
grew to love the topic. In some way, shape or form, each guy/girl didn’t want
to be what they were either told they were going to be by their parent, or what
they thought they were going to do in the beginning. But each one would take a different
route and discover that they wanted to do something different and they didn’t let
anything come in their way of what they wanted to do and how they wanted to
contribute to the development of evolution.
As I read,
ive always been a little if-y on the idea of evolution because I was raised in
a home when were we went to church and believed in a higher being, but the more
I read, the more I started to question it. Now im not saying i have suddenly
changed my way of thinking in that there is no beyond with a higher being than
ourselves, but it does make me wonder, what really is out there and what is
really true. These kinds of questions really puzzle me because there really is
now way of ever knowing and that’s what always makes me think for hours on end.
I really wish there was a way to really find out what there is to know because I
believe it would make everything a lot easier to think about and comprehend
rather than one person believing on one things and another believing in another
and neither of them knowing what is actually true or not.
Sorry,
I kind of went on a little rant. It happens sometimes, its fine. I would recommend
you read this book if science does interest you and if you really want to know
who were the crazy people who first thought of this idea that would challenge everybodys
way of thinking. After that, if you are a person who believes in God and want
to know how Darwin was able to still keep his religion while doing all this
research, I would suggest you read “Finding Darwin’s God”. I think that’s going
to be one book that I read when I don’t have a thousand other books to read
because I would like to know how Darwin was able to still be religious while
making all these scientific discoveries.
