Evolution is No More Irreligious Than Birth Through Biological Reproduction
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction [the pattern of development].
Notes:
Darwin challenges the religious to explain why being related to primates is any worse than being conceived through sexual intercourse.
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