Dear Hooker,
I am finally decided. I think I owe it to my children to at least have the courage of my own convictions. My title will be "On the Origin of Species". And I shall endeavor to keep God out it, although no doubt he will see it as a personal attack.
"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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