How Did Charles Darwin Disprove The Creation Of Religion?

For centuries, no one ever questioned how humans have gotten to where we are today. Humans would turn to different belief systems and religion to relieve them of their preoccupations and questions. The powerful and influential religion of Christianity was the answer to all. The Roman Catholic Church and several others determined that God was the creator of life and created everything. During the Scientific Revolution, those who wanted to combine science and religion were convinced that God gave the scientists ideas. While some could argue against that proposition, no one could prove or disprove this prevailing theory. In the period from 1860 to 1900,Charles Darwin shook Europe with his theory of natural selection and evolution. To some his ideas were blasphemous, to others they were enlightening and could be seen in all aspects of life. Charles Darwin was a biologist and the developer of the natural selection theory and evolution. In 1876, he states in his Autobiography that he will remain agnostic as there is evidence for natural selection due to his extensive …show more content…
In her 1866 preface to Origin of the Species, Clemence Royer, an anthropologist, feminist, and translator of Darwin, deliberately spited that Darwin’s theory went against the Old Testament, but all of his theses and evidence were more logical than God being the creator of all. (DOC 2) Darwin had tangible evidence and reasonable arguments that could be seen in many different aspects. Karl Pearson, mathematician and scientist, also explained how the survival of the fittest led to humans in their state now in his National Life From the Standpoint of Science (1900). To the dismay of his materialistic and conservative readers, he makes them imagine their world without technological advances and how natural selection gave them these ideas. (DOC 7) Through finding better ways to survive, humans went from cavemen to industrialized