All of the following statements are true of Charles Darwin and his landmark writing, On the Origin of the Species, except which one?

A. Social Darwinism - a 19th century application of Darwin's work to social conditions which was used to justify European imperialism - represented a distortion of Darwin's ideas
B. The theory of evolution originated with Darwin, and his theory denied the idea of a divine Creator and the existence of God
C. Darwin concluded that evolution operates by means of natural selection, a process by which nature permits the survival of those creatures most suited to the struggle for life and reproduction
D. Darwin spent his early career amassing enormous amounts of biological and geological data, much of it coming from his five-year voyage to South America aboard the HMS Beagle

Answer: B. The theory of evolution originated with Darwin, and his theory denied the idea of a divine Creator and the existence of God