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Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species
1859 was an earth-shattering year when we're talking about the level of discourse and new discoveries. John Stuart Mill wasn't a Christian, but he thought that what we call today sometimes of the design argument was a pretty good argument for some kind of creator. But in his last essay where he talks about these kinds of issues, he also says, in essence, this clever fellow named Charles Darwin has just published a book that offers a different explanation for why it seems like we see evidence of nature.