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I got a chance to visit New Orleans for the first time ever July 2005 and I couldn't believe the wickedness that was allowed and accepted throughout what they called the French Quarters on Bourbon Street. All of the accepted sin and wickedness that went on for blocks in the downtown area seven days a week looked and smelled just like New Orleans looks now. Everything from the Hustler women dancing exotically in the streets (Hustler Maganize had their own building territory), transvestites performing in the night clubs, bars full of drunk people, women flashing their breasts throughout the streets-no Ma'de Celebration needed, people drunk like zombies walking into buildings and parked cars, females dancing nasty just to get men to buy alcohol from them in test tubes, and worst of all, all of this sin has been done and handed down for many generations to where it became sin done up and down the public street tamed and accepted by the city, the law enforcement officials, the entire government of the United States, etc—as the norm. Everybody saw, knew it was going on-and looked the other way. Maybe no one every attempted to stop it because of the value they placed on the people in the city. Now that lack of value is about to cost a hefty penny.

Not only that, almost everything in New Orleans has the name “Voodoo” on it. From the stores to the restaurants. Something is wrong with that. How can a so many people who know God, still worship powers of darkness?

The "Origin of the Species" is not an ordinary science book. It purports to challenge the account of Creation as written in the Bible. It came from a Christian whose conclusions about observations in the natural world led him to disbelief. It proposes a theory that changes the perception of man regarding important issues like where we come from, where we are going to, what is the purpose of life, etc. As such, its repercusions involve not only Naturalism but also Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Psychology, Ethics, History, Sociology, etc.
I haven't researched the historic background of such a work but one can roughly say that it was landed at a time where there was a revival of humanistic and liberal ideas, the world was being delivered from the heritage of Catholicism, other religions established themselves as universal systems of faith, technologic advances were rapidly being implemented after centuries of stagnation, there was an Industrial Revolution taking place and a flourishing capitalist economy, the levels of worlwide commerce, information and comunication increased, etc. Men were in search of new answers to ancient questions about themselves.
The ideas of Darwin found a rich ground and became a paradigm. Science became the new religion. It's no wonder that many other fields adopted the paradigm and worked to sustain it. No human intellectual output is purely objective and Science is no exception. If you believe in Evolution you interpret reality accordingly.
For the Theory to work they needed: (1) to erase traces of an intelligent Creator, (2) a long timeline to allow gradual changes, (3) conceptions about matter and energy which came from nowhere, organised very nicely - after randomness and chaos ceased on their own - and generated the building pieces of the universe and life.
Therefore, the earth became very old and the Bible was no more than a pretentious book of myths full of allegories and metaphors.