“All you need is ignorance and confidence and success is certain.” (“Mark Twain”). On February 12, 1809 a new face entered this world and they named him Charles Robert Darwin and he would change the way we thought about evolution. This man was ignorant and stubborn. He didn't believe what he was told; to find out for yourself. Charles Darwin's confidence was one of his strong attributes. Darwin did everything he believed in, with all his heart and mind. Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. “Nothing suggested a genius; he didn't do well at school and his father told him he would be a disgrace to the family name. (Leo 11). When his mother died, he followed his brother to medical school at the University of Edinburgh, which was the top medical school in the UK at the time. He would soon abandon his medical training and learn taxidermy, which is… His father was unhappy that he had abandoned his medical course and sent him to Christ's College, Cambridge, for an art degree. His cousin William Darwin Fox introduced him to beetle collecting. Darwin concentrated on collecting beetles and became famous as a collector. He also did well in his exams and ranked 10th in his class. He stayed at Cambridge and studied natural theology which argued for divine design in nature, showing adaptation as God acting through the laws of nature. (Sydow) Darwin went on a five-year voyage with a geology group he funded called The Voyage of the Beagle. Darwin spent most of his time studying geology and creating natural collections. Darwin kept careful notes of his observations and theoretical speculations. Darwin made an important discovery of fossil bones of an enormous but extinct...... middle of paper ......, Charles." FactCite: Lincoln Library of Shapers of Society Online. Lincoln Lib. P, 2011. Web. November 4, 2013. "Mark Twain." BrainyQuote.com. Red in Tooth and Claw Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Print."Charles Darwin.com.com, 2013. November 8, 2013. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/. c/charlesdar388849.htmlVon Sydow, Momme (2005). "Darwin – A Christian Undermining Christianity? On the Self-Undermining Dynamic of Ideas Between Belief and Science." In Knight, David M.; Eddy, Matthew D. Science and Belief: From Natural Philosophy to the Natural Sciences. By Ker. “What is Darwin's theory of evolution?” WordsSideKick.com .com, December 7, 2012. Web. 2013.