What would happen if Charles Darwin returned and visited the Earth today? That’s the fascinating question posed by historian Nickell John Romjue’s short novel I, Charles Darwin, which follows the famous British naturalist as he explores the science of the twenty-first century and reflects on what it means for his theory of evolution.
Finding himself returned to earth in 2009 on the 150th anniversary of The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin keeps a journal of his fascinating experience. Granted special powers of invisibility and instant travel, he visits the fossil sites, laboratories, and libraries of the world — eager to explore the progress and impact of his world-changing evolutionary legacy. Startling discoveries in science and beyond science await him.
Darwin discovers conclusive, worldwide fossil evidence that animal phyla appeared already fully formed at the very dawn of geological time. He is astonished by the molecular biological revolution and its revolutionary message. He is profoundly shocked by the twentieth century’s great killing regimes — rationalized by brutal new ideologies in a world where scientific naturalism eroded belief in the Creator God of History and a moral code transcending nature.
I, Charles Darwin is a scientific epiphany and a moral parable. Mr. Darwin’s journal is brought to light by an American historian whose many published twentieth-century-history stories dramatize the fierce contradictions assailing the tragic illusion of modern men and women that human existence is an accident of blind nature in a meaningless universe.
I, Charles Darwin is available as a book and as a 99-minute audio adaptation with voice actors, sound effects, and music.