Why were Darwin's theories so controversial?

Answer 1

Actually, all the religious people believed God created this world, and put them on this world for a reason. They believed that they had purpose in life.

But when Charles Darwin came along and said that we're related to monkeys, people got very upset. BEcause if you question one part of The Bible, you're questiong the entire bible, and that's what Darwin did.

After he released his book, people found it upsetting to know that we are here by chance, and that we don't actually have a purpose on earth.

but honestly, if that's teh case, then we should be happy we're here by chance and live it up while it lasts.

Answer 2

Because the theory he put forward relates all forms of life, however lowly they may seem. and definitely did not fit in with the idea that the creatures of earth were created in one magical flash.

Answer 3

During the era when Darwin was sailing around the world on the Beagle, in Europe believed what the bible preached - that the world was created by God in seven days. However, there was a school of thought that believed the fossil evidence found in rocks was evidence that a form of life had existed for thousands of years. Darwin's breakthrough came about during his time on the Galapagos Islands. Ideas and insights come at unexpected moments, often when the mind is open and not focussed on anything specific and Darwin's moment came when he observed that finches from two different islands had evolved in small but different ways.

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Answer 4

cuz he was a anti duhh

...um hi thts no it...Its because Charles Darwin was giving anther theory against the church...he created the evolution theory....tht theory is about science not religion...tht why he made the church upset...his theory wanst about gods story...

Answer 5

Darwin proposed his ideas in a time when all species were thought to be fixed, unchangeable entities created by God. God is a religious idea and many people (even though Darwin's idea was scientific and not religious) were offended because their origins story (Genesis, the six-day creation and the god-moulding of all life) was contradicted. Most difficult to swallow was that humans (Man himself) seemed to emerge, morph, from other animals.

Darwin's ideas were initially under fierce scrutiny and objection from the scientific realm too. How on Earth did genetics work? No-one (save Mendel) knew and it was thought (with ignorance of Mendel's work) that a blending mechanism of inheritance would disallow overlong change. Mendel (or his ideas) changed that however, when it was realised that the 'gene'/'factor' type of inheritance that lived in Mendelism allowed change where blending would not.

Answer 6

For a long time it was believed that God created man and all the animals and plants we see around us. But Darwin, by virtue of examining animals that he encountered as a voyager of the Beagle, came to believe that animals got to be the way they are now by changing from what they used to be like in the past. Creatures evolved over time. This flew in the face of church doctrine, and great debates followed.

Answer 7

Darwin's theory of evolution contradicts the literal interpretation of creation as taken from the bible

Answer 8

Because his views opposed the churches. The church said that god created everything as they are now. Darwin believed in evolution.

Answer 9

because it questioned the creational beliefs of the entire christian religion.