"At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable."
Of course long before 1859 Mr. Darwin was convinced he was right and he was convinced natural selection was the mechanism that made the diversity of life possible.
Charles Darwin knew he was changing the world. He knew religious people would cry like babies. But I bet he never imagined the crybabies of the 21st century who still don't understand.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
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