What if On the Origin of Species had gone differently?

Darwin shows how natural selection can produce the whole tree of life without a designer.

If it had gone differently: Life stays something designed rather than evolved; biology and half of modern thought lose their organising principle.

The real history on Wikipedia ↗

Later turning points that leaned on On the Origin of Species. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

1. 1865Germ theory of disease. Without it, Doctors keep blaming bad air; surgery stays a death sentence and cities stay killing grounds.
2. 1953The structure of DNA. Without it, How life stores its instructions stays a mystery; molecular biology, genetic medicine and biotech never get started.