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Darwin’s On the Origin of Species explains the evolution of life in terms of survival of the fittest and natural selection, and provides evidence of evolution through domestication, fossils, embryology, and more. His theory was highly controversial because of its opposition to creationism, but over time, advances in genetics and molecular biology have made evolutionary theory the scientific...

Darwin’s Origin of Species has historically caused great friction with religion, and the debate between evolution and creationism continues today. This article will cover religious criticisms of Darwin’s theory of evolution and scientific responses to them, and explore a compromise where the two theories can coexist.   At the end of the 19th century, Charles Robert Darwin’s...