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Actually Darwin's theories and evidence were almost immediately accepted by the scientific community. His dissertations met with great success and very little resistance. Most of those who did resist had theological underpinnings for their belief that species were immutable and could not change over time. And it was for that same reason (ie. religion) that Darwin's discoveries were not accepted by the general public and that the teaching of biological evolution, though a demonstrable and extraordinarily well understood fact of nature, meets with resistance even to this day.

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