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Another issue that Darwin had is that for the theory of evolution to work you need very long periods of time.
The problem is that it has been proved by the physicist William Thomson using cold hard maths that the earth cannot be older that few hundreds millions years, which is not compatible with Darwin's theory.
History told us that Darwin was right and Thomson wrong but it did not appeared this way at the time.
It should also be noted that huge parts of the Church also rejected William Thomson's age calculations for the Earth. Even though he massively underestimated its age, the Church asserted that the Earth was even younger.