47) All of these factors influenced Darwin in his writing of the theory of evolution by natural selection EXCEPT one. Which factor did not influence Darwin's theory?
A)
He was strongly against creationism and set out to disprove it.
B)
He noticed similarities between animals and plants from different places in the world.
C)
Another author, Alfred Wallace, was competing against him, largely writing the same theory.
D)
He recognized similarities in Malthus's theory of food limitations, and with the rules of nature.



Answer :

Among the choices provided, the statement that is not a factor that influenced Darwin in his writing of the theory of evolution by natural selection is letter A, he was strongly against creationism and set out to disprove it. The Evolution by Natural Selection is Darwin's grand idea of evolution.
W0lf93
Darwin was against creationism. He was concerned with science. He supported the fact that biological evolution takes place via evolution in the ancestors and is not created suddenly. he said that evolutio changes one organsim into another one, adaptations.