Was Darwin a genius or a pseudoscientist?

“ Darwin's greatest achievement was to demonstrate that the ordered organization of living things is a natural process, the result of natural selection, and can be explained without recourse to a Creator or other external agent.” /Francisco Ayala, Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion/ Charles Darwin was a brilliant and influential scientific thinker, not a con artist, whose extraordinary combination of meticulous observation, tolerance for uncertainty, and persistent work ethic led to his groundbreaking theories of evolution by natural selection. While he was not a traditional "genius" in the mold of a physicist, his profound impact on science and his revolutionary ideas are universally acknowledged, with his work considered one of the greatest scientific books ever written. Evidence of Darwin's Genius: Revolutionary Ideas: His work on evolution by natural selection fundamentally changed scientific thought and continues to be regarded as a pivotal ...