One of the many invalid points that creationists often make about evolution is that it is somehow dry and uninspiring, stealing from the mystery of their particular creation myths. Here are the final lines of "On the Origin of Species": "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Dry? Uninspired? Hardly. That is one beautiful chunk of writing, coming from a scientist filled with wonderment. The entire book manages to be both solid science and worthy literature. This is why Darwin belongs in the Pantheon with Newton, Einstein, Kepler and the rest of the greats. Just had to get that said.