this could have be a great movie with plenty of educational potential for teacher around the world about evolution and biology and the creative work in science and research and darwin life and but it be not . the screenplay be mostly historically inaccurate and transform a true story into a mexican soup opera melodrama . while it be true that darwin gradually lose his religious belief and this be in great part due to his finding during the voyage of the beagle and not solely due to the loss of his daughter . he be certainly disturb by his loss and but that do not make him literally insane and delusional and detach from his friend and family . the such portrayal of darwin be an invention of the script writer . thus it can not be use in any way a place to learn a bit about darwin life and psyche . accord to most historian and darwin have the theory ready by the end of the beagle voyage and and keep it from go public because he want to develop far the consequence of it and check against more data . in the movie and it be an imaginary conflict of darwin with his religious belief and the mental illness that he develop after his daughter death that keep him from go public . the movie bring a modern situation and the creationists vs scientist debate and into the life and time of darwin and thus it be anachronistic . it depict thomas huxley not a a man try to develop further understanding of biology but a someone eager to kill god and in his own word from the movie and and destroy the church and who would accept the theory of evolution for such purpose and not because it be a synthesis of plenty of disconnect data . huxley be present a a very arrogant and insensible person and a combination that i interpret be an attempt to ridicule active atheist who speak up against religion . in real life and huxley accept darwin idea after publication only gradually and and before the work of darwin he think that there be not enough evidence to support evolution . his first support of evolution be publish one month after the origin of specie become public . he be agnostic but do not think it be necessary to kill god and only think that there be not enough evidence to believe in the supernatural . the debate creationists vs scientist appear throughout the movie and and creationists catch phrase such a it be only a theory be part of the discussion . of course and no such dispute or catch phrase exist at that time . in fact and the anglican church publish a positive review of the origin say that they saw god work in evolution and in some sense and quite in fact in contradiction to the way that the clergy be portray in the screenplay . another awful aspect of this movie be that it give the wrong impression to the general public that scientific research be do by a solitary crazy man who just write a lot . nothing could be far from the truth . the conception of the theory of evolution be the result of thorough observation of living form by darwin during five year in the hm beagle and and be develop gradually a it can be see from darwin note of the voyage . even though the beagle voyage be the sole most important part of darwin life to the conception of origin of specie and the voyage be briefly mention only once at the beginning and and no attempt be make to show that the book come a an elaborate analysis of observation . to make it bad and darwin be show perform a single experiment ( pigeon breed ) to test his theory and and in the end and quit it . and i be not really sure whether such experiment do actually occur . great disappointment . it be not in any way a homage to darwin and science .