There are a couple of errors here.
Firstly, it's true that the term "evolution" was first used by a Christian in the sense of biological speciation, but it wasn't Darwin. It was Charles Lyell, a creationist, I'm 1882. Darwin himself (as well as Lyell other than two mentions of "evolution") used the term "transmutation", which was a more accurate description of what he was describing (adaptive morphology leading to speciation).
Although the word "evolution" was used in English a few centuries before Darwin was born, the definition "relating to gradual change" had been born before 1800, and the concept of evolution within organisms had been hypothesized earlier in the 19th century. Darwin was the first to provide objective evidence using the scientific method.
Lyell himself, a geologist, used the word in the 1830s with regard to gradual changes of geological features. Of course the Theory of Evolution wasn't that of Darwin. Darwin published his theory of natural selection, whilst the earlier theory of I herited characteristics was the work of Lamarck, in 1801.
Firstly, it's true that the term "evolution" was first used by a Christian in the sense of biological speciation, but it wasn't Darwin. It was Charles Lyell, a creationist, I'm 1882. Darwin himself (as well as Lyell other than two mentions of "evolution") used the term "transmutation", which was a more accurate description of what he was describing (adaptive morphology leading to speciation).
Although the word "evolution" was used in English a few centuries before Darwin was born, the definition "relating to gradual change" had been born before 1800, and the concept of evolution within organisms had been hypothesized earlier in the 19th century. Darwin was the first to provide objective evidence using the scientific method.
Lyell himself, a geologist, used the word in the 1830s with regard to gradual changes of geological features. Of course the Theory of Evolution wasn't that of Darwin. Darwin published his theory of natural selection, whilst the earlier theory of I herited characteristics was the work of Lamarck, in 1801.
