Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
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Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.
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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
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