What made Darwin so reluctant to reveal his theory in public, and why did it win almost as many opponents, both in and outside the life sciences, as it did adherents? Certainly Darwin, who was a religious agnostic, knew it spelled the doom of the age-old creation story of the Book of Genesis. In fact, to this day the conflict over evolution is defined as a clash between Darwinists and so-called Creationists. Yet the history of geology has exposed the intellectual inadequacies of the seven-day creation story far more decisively than evolution has, and before Darwin arrived on the scene. His own
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