Thomas JeffersonThey (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.
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In the late 1700s, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this book, he presented a new theory about how life evolved. The idea was that a common ancestor living millions of years ago gave rise to a number of different types of plants and animals through a process called natural selection. This Darwinian theory challenged religion with its suggestion that humans were simply part of a larger, more complex evolutionary process.
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