Darwin was a great scientist and lived in Europe in the 18th century. He has a famous theory that humans evolved in the past and after a long time they moved from a single cell in water to land and after some time these biological single cells became mammals and mammals like monkeys evolved into Human beings.
But let’s examine the connection of his theory with European society together. In the Middle Ages and after that, European society was a barbaric society that committed many crimes. Among these crimes of burning witches. Attacking neighboring countries and massacring them and brutally killing people and the superstitions of the church that the priests were against science and knowledge. The priests thought that the earth was flat and any scientist who spoke against them was executed. In my opinion, all these issues went hand in hand to make Darwin think that humans evolved from monkeys. If you see monkeys, their behavior is no different from that of medieval Europeans. Darwin’s theory was derived from the European society of that time. Darwin suffered from severe depression that at the end of his life he even avoided his family and locked himself in a room.
The only thing that made him depressed was the culture of that time, and Darwin considered the barbaric actions and behaviors that he saw in society to be related to evolution and presented his famous theory of evolution. In my opinion, if Darwin had lived somewhere other than Europe and if he had seen the civilized East, his opinion would have changed and he would not have presented the theory of evolution.
The relationship between theory and society is not only related to Darwin, but at the present time, I see many theories from all over the world that are directly related to society. For example, in America there are superstitions like aliens, these superstitions only exist in America because they are influenced by Hollywood movies. Astronomers are not exempt from these superstitions, but we witness that American astronauts express the theory of the existence of extraterrestrials, and the number of these theories is also large. The connection between the lovers and the helmets of people’s lives has a long history. If a scientist grows up in a healthy society, that scientist becomes useful for humans, like Abu Ali Sina, who was a great scientist and discovered many medical sciences and contributed a lot to the health of humans. On the other hand, there are scientists like Darwin and superstitious scientists like American, whose theories are full of superstitions and laughable because their theories have no scientific support, but they have been influenced by society’s superstitions.
If we see great scientists like Tesla and Einstein, they never believed that humans are descended from monkeys or that aliens exist because they discovered science based on observations and experiences, and scientists like Darwin and others based their theories on They provide the basis of fantasy.
Of course, I must say one more thing, theories and science have nothing to do with a specific person, because science is universal and science already existed. If it wasn’t for Tesla and Einstein, we shouldn’t think that the sciences they discovered could not have been discovered by anyone else. This discussion is a separate discussion and requires a long discussion. But I am not interested in writing more about this. Good luck.