Ths worship is blemished by at least four exposures:

Darwin had no "mechanism" for "operating Evolution". He attributed inheritance via the blood. But you can see how silly this is by pouring a few drops of colored liquid into a tub of water: it is soon diffused so much as never to be "effective". Only particulate, protected means would suffice. Ignoring this critical part of Darwin's theory is comparable to praising Leonardo da Vinci for his "flying machine". Leonardo created a glider with no engine. A great accomplishment, but should not be overestimated. Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and Hugo De Vries (1848-1935) supplied the "engine" for "Darwin's glider" -- particulate chromosomes, protected in the sex cells of the body for transmission via reproduction.

Darwin never acknowledge that biologist Edward Blyth (1810-73) postulated the basic ideas of evolutionary theory in a paper published 6 months before Darwin returned on the "The Beagle" from the Galápagos Archipelago, to start his evolutionary research. Darwin praised other work of Blyth. And Darwin referenced a paper appearing in the same journal next to Blyth's paper. Also Darwin began for the first time to use a technical term after it appeared in Blyth's paper, and examples cited in some of Darwin's work first appeared in Blyth's two papers on evolutionary theory. (Students have been accused of plagiarism on similar grounds. See Darwin and The Mysterious Mr. X, by Loren Eisley, the distinguished American palaeontologist and science essayist.)

Independently wealthy, reclusive Darwin was said to have subscribed to all biological journals published during his creative years, so Darwin should have seen Mendel's paper, which eventually resulted in a critical revision of evolutionary theory. But Darwin never mentioned Mendel in any way.

I've compiled a list of 16 versions of evolutionary theory, changing over the decades -- including its mathematization by G. H. Hardy, J. B. S. Haldane, and Sir Ronald Fisher (raising some of this science to the level of what, elsewhere at this Website, I call "SCIENCEFIRSTCLASS") -- so that this science is now critically different from Darwin's conception. (Anent the latter point, please see, at this Website, "Ignored Language Abuses".)