The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot.
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.
Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.