On ‘On The Origin of Species’

Richard Dawkins said that Charles Darwin had a big idea, Stephen Jay Gould wondered why Darwin was so hard to grasp, and Jerry Falwell said that evolutionary teachings have turned countless minds against the Gospel and the authority of the Scripture. It was this date in 1859 that Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species. Following the break are the last two paragraphs of this seminal work.

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