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Note: Buddhism strongly disagrees with the theory of evolution that theorizes that humans are descended from apes. Buddhism obviously does agree with spiritual evolution or psychological evolution.

The theory of evolution posits a process of transformation from simple life forms to more complex life forms, which has never been observed or duplicated in a laboratory. The theory of evolution was published by naturalist Darwin, Charles | Charles Darwin in his book The Origin of Species | On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, in 1859. In a letter to Asa Gray, Darwin confided: “…I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science.”¹⁾ Prior to publishing the book, Darwin wrote in his private notebooks that he was a materialism | materialist, which is a type of atheism | atheist.²⁾

The basic principle behind natural selection is that in the struggle for life some organisms in a given population will be better suited to their particular environment and thus have a reproductive advantage which increases the representation of their particular traits over time. Many years before Charles Darwin, there were several other individuals who published articles on the topic of natural selection such as Russell Grigg. Darwin did not first propose in his book Origin of Species that man had descended from non-human ancestors. Darwin's theory of evolution incorporated that later in Darwin's book entitled Descent of Man.