Dustin quoted Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written …
Before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace provided one in 1859, it was reasonable to think they were the handiwork of a divine designer—one of the reasons, I suspect, that so many Enlightenment thinkers were deists rather than outright atheists. Darwin and Wallace made the designer unnecessary.