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Skeptize everything. Welcome to the 14th episode of the Naked Mormonism podcast. I'm Bryce Blankan

Eagle, and thank you for joining me. Last episode, we compared the upbringing of Joseph Smith to that of Charles Darwin. I couldn't help but notice some of the similarities as well as the vast differences between these two young men as they were growing up to become the person that history would know them as.

They grew up a mere four years apart from each other,

but the environments they were each raised in differed from each other almost oppositely.

Charles grew up in a stable household with a comfortable income to support his family.

Both of his parents were educated and divorced themselves from typical fundamentalist Christian beliefs in lieu of a more fluid and progressive

perspective. Charles and his brother Erasmus got to play with a chemistry set that was in their

backyard while growing up. Charles and all the Darwin's grew up with

stable schooling, and most of them pursued higher education upon completion of basic schooling.

His siblings went on to be doctors and lawyers, and Charles went on to publish all of the work

that he did up until the year he died of old age in 1882.

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