A quote from "Faith Versus Fact, Why Science And Religion Are Incompatible" by Jerry Coyne:
"Before 1859, there simply was no alternative to God's ingenuity as the explanation for the remarkable adaptations of animals and plants ... but all that changed when Darwin explained those designlike features by natural selection. The best evidence for God simply vanished."
"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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