Darwin, Science, and Society by Babu Ranganathan
In Darwin's world of the late 19th century society was ready for a naturalistic and mechanistic explanation for the origin of life and species without any resort to belief in the supernatural. There were many in society who wished to shed any moral and social limits or barriers to sexual and various other forms of gratification. The only way of doing this was to find a "rational" argument against belief in the existence of God and, particularly, against the kind of God that the Christian Scriptures portray. Darwin came on the scene just in time.
Darwin convinced the intellectual elite of society in his day of no need to believe in God because his theory of "natural selection" solved all naturalistic problems for explaining design and complexity in nature. Actually, other individuals wrote and published on the subject of natural selection before Darwin but that is another subject.
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