In the second edition in 1860, just a few months after the first – Darwin made two tweaks in terms of religion. “There is grandeur in this view of life…whilst this planet has gone cycling…from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” The most controversial part was that the last sentence of the summary of his piece, which did not include such a creator anywhere: This was the motive for the enormous criticism from different religious sectors as it did away with the idea of a creator’s involvement in this process. Thus, he also clearly positioned himself against the possibility that the species were independently created. In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin explained how the different species of living organisms were created through natural selection from a common ancestor (1). Do his responses to the critiques remain valid today? THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE In the sixth and final edition in 1872, he touched up certain parts and concepts that had been called into question. In response to these objections, Darwin edited his work on at least five occasions. In 1859, Charles Darwin published his culminating work On the Origin of Species, which immediately received many different objections and critiques from various angles – both scientific and religious as well as political and sociological, among others.
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