And you think evolution was not embraced to fill the lack of a creation myth that undermined peoples' own personal lifestyle and rejection of religious restrictions on behavior? The first people to accept Darwin's theory were not paleontologists or relevant scientists, they were robber barons and wealthy tycoons, and degenerate people of influence, who faced rebuke for their public moral shortcomings, but lacked the authority of the universally accepted religious standards of behavior. The Rockefellers and their ilk were overjoyed, because here was an idea that justified them, with its fundamental tautology of "survival of the fittest" that apparently blessed their financial success as fitness.