But there is evidence that it has been going on ever since 1859. Darwin didn’t board planes and do book tours, he didn’t get on television and do interviews with CNN, he didn’t get colorful pages on amazon with raving promotions and reviews by scientists. Book promotion was very slow - little more than word-of-mouth in the mid 19th century. But his book still SOLD OUT ON THE VERY FIRST DAY. We’re supposed to believe that’s because of a sudden interest in science by general public. Common sense tells me that it was a long hunger for intellectually fulfilled atheism that caused the book to sell out, for Darwin to be hero to atheists, in 1859, and today.
If you have absolutely no evidence for your fantasies, then attributing them to "common sense" serves, if anything, only to highlight the discrepancy between your daydreams and reality.
Actually, "common sense" has nothing at all to do with your nonsense. Whether the book was (as in your daydreams) an atheist manifesto, or whether it was (as in reality) the most revolutionary book on biology ever written, produced by one of the greatest naturalists of the age, it must
still have been promoted in advance in order to sell out on its first day. There is no special atheist magic that would make an atheistic book become an instant best-seller
before anyone knew what was in it.
You people.