God Darwin or Buddah?

That the mid-nineteenth-century scientists chose to assume that matter was the source of everything in the universe, including life and consciousness was in fact a natural reaction. Up to that point of time the Judo-Christian dogmas of god, soul and creation, had been governing and directing their thoughts and affairs, that any deviant was considered a heretic and crushed with impunity. Fates of Galileo and Giodano Bruno are glaring examples