Title: Popular Mechanics
Author: Popular Science
Pages: 97
Genre: Science- Non fiction

Blog Post 6

Recently, I have been reading a magazine called “Popular Mechanics”. It is a magazine that discusses new interesting technologies and also inventions that people made on a tight budget. For example, they talked about a New York School that constructed a giant working airplane made of balsa wood and special papyrus. They also talked about a mechanic who worked at an auto shop and he managed to create the fastest go kart, which went over 100 mph.

1. Persuade us to consider your figure as the “greatest” human being who ever lived. Give us 3 reasons with evidence. 

Well there are many reasons why Charles Darwin deserves to be the “greatest” human being. The first thing that is a good reason was because he was not afraid to express his beliefs and thoughts. After doing his voyage on the HMS Beagle, he decided that the Anglican Church was wrong. The majority of English citizens are Christian. He knew that if he were to disagree with the Anglican Church, the majority of people would be upset with him since his thoughts and beliefs are against the Anglican Church.  Yet, he still was brave enough to stand up for his opinions. Many people in the world would not be brave enough to do this. The second reason he deserves the title the “greatest” human being, is because of his contribution to modern biology. Thanks to him, we know understand why and how animals change and new species develop over long periods of time. His theories and predictions of natural selection and evolution. Even up to today, 150 years later, we still believe and use the evolution and natural selection theories.  The third and final reason is because his many studies and research experiments helped humans better understand the biology and development and similarity of different animals. With Darwin’s evolution experiments , we now understand what and which animals evolved from each other.