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Ideas. Darwin presented a theory that was "literally" confusing, being a subtle tautology, where because words have meanings specific and non-specific, a local interpretation of a word or a term may not be consistent with how the statement is best interpreted as a whole.

However Darwin's theory, accepted as some marvel of logic, was very liberating to science because educated folks -- the leaders of the times -- had indulged not so much in a "biblical literalism" but more a stiffling intellectual and social literalism. In England, see Dickens. The prior generations -- to some significant extent -- thought everything was known, so why ask.

A question is an appreciation. Every "appreciated thing or event or person" is both a blessing and a question. An awareness provoked at the spiritual level. When we stop asking questions, we have stopped appreciating, we have stopped drawing out the Divine -- stopped our blessings, made G-d lonely by our estrangements.

The grass of intellect and spirit no longer sprouts -- our mechanical lip-services trod it down.

Hooray for Darwin! Hooray for Huxley! Hooray for Wilberforce!

Still, I reserve any kudos for Dawkins and his kind.