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As he knew it would, the 1859 publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species aroused opposition from many quarters, including many in the Church. Evolutionary theories were common currency at the time but men like William Paley had reconciled them with religious belief by suggesting that evolution was directed by some sort of cosmic guiding hand (i.e. God). What was particularly shocking about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was that it removed the need for a guiding intelligence directing proceedings. Blind forces could be responsible for all of life’s many forms; there was no need for God in this conception of creation. Religionists were also uncomfortable with Darwin’s unstated, though implied, conclusion that man might be descended from the apes, rather than being the result of a separate act of creation, made in God’s own image.