Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip
Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, Evolution, Faith & Science, fertilization, Francis Henry Egerton, history, insects, Intelligent Design, John Murray, Linnean Society, monograph, natural selection, orchids, Origin of Species, Sigmund Freud, William Paley
It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Source