07:00:46 pm, Categories: Ethics and Science, I.D. and Creationism, 499 words On the Origin of Evolution "It is like confessing a murder." So wrote Charles Darwin in 1844 to botanist Joseph Hooker of his now famous theory of evolution by natural selection. At the time, the dominant belief was that all species were created by God in their present form. So Darwin, loath to provoke controversy, nurtured his idea in secret for nearly two decades before finally revealing it--first to a few trusted colleagues, then to the world in his book, On the Origin of Species. Published in 1859, the...