Why People Need Religion
...face another day. Collectively, Christianity is the world's most practiced religion and possibly the most powerful. Many people have tested and tried that power and authority that the church holds, people such as Galileo, Giordano Bruno, and King Henry VIII of England, just to name a few. But no other has challenged the authority of the church like Charles Darwin and his "dangerous Idea." (qtd. in Miller 12)
The theory of evolution's origins can be traced back to the time of the ancient Greeks, but it wasn't until Charles Darwin arrived on the scene that any actual evidence suggesting such heresies' ever gained the attention of the Church. Darwin's theory made a big impact on the Christianity because of the contrary ideas to that of the religion, the state the church was in, and because of Charles Darwin himself.
Darwin's theory of evolution changed traditional ways of thinking with ideas such as, natural selection and sexual selection.Darwin's theory of natural selection states:
Darwin's Theory of Evolution is the widely held notion that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers -- all related. Darwin's general theory presumes the development of life from non-life and stresses a purely naturalistic (undirected) "descent with modification". That is, complex creatures evolve from more simplistic ancestors naturally over time. In a nutshell, as random genetic mutations occur within an organism's genetic code, the beneficial mutations are preserved because they aid survival -- a process known as "natural selection." These beneficial mutations are passed on to the next generation. Over time, beneficial mutations accumulate and the result is an entirely different organism. (Darwin's Theory of Evolution A Theory in Crisis)
From that paragraph I can only find one remotely similar idea...
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