B15.3 Accepting Darwin and Lamarck's ideas

Darwin’s theory

Darwin's theory caused a lot of controversy and his ideas were only gradually accepted. Some people do not believe them today. Some of the reasons for this include:

• Darwin’s theory conflicted with religious views that God had made all the animals and plants on Earth
• Darwin did not have enough evidence at the time to convince many scientists
• It was 50 years after Darwin’s theory was published that the way that inheritance and variation worked was discovered
• the genes that allow these individuals to be successful are passed to their offspring.

Darwin’s theory is now widely…