Multiple choice general knowledge

The Church of England is offically apologizing to a great scientist, 126 years after his death for misunderstanding his theory. Who is this scientist?

  1. Copernicus

  2. Charles Darwin

  3. Lemarck

  4. Albert Einstein
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Explanation

In 2008, the Church of England issued a formal public apology to Charles Darwin, 126 years after his death, acknowledging the church's initial hostile rejection of his theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin proposed evolution by natural selection, while Copernicus focused on astronomy and Einstein on physics.

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