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Talking about our first paper today in class was not only helpful for me to find a good topic to write on, but also helped me think about Darwin in different ways too. Everyone had different ideas that came from their interpretations of the reading and it helped me look at the reading in a different light as well.

Something from Tuesday that sticks out to me was the quote about how humans are still changing and evolving is the most disturbing thing about evolution.  However, with our small group discussion with Prof Grobstein we spent much of the time talking about how people have greatly changed over time and also how we are still changing.  I actually think thats a really interesting thought.  In Darwin's story, he seemed to stick closely to examples with birds, insects, and plants and shyed away from looking at human evolution.  I wonder if this is because they simply provided better evidence to his theory and made for a better story then did looking at the changes in humans over time.

From what I've read of Origin of Species, I think Darwin was a foundationalist, but then became a non-foundationalist after finding all of this evidence and so many stories that support a more non-foundationalist narrative.  Even though it isn't possible to say one story is right and one is wrong, the evidence that Darwin collected shows that non-foundationalism, to him, is more correct.