Why Was the English Naturalist Charles Darwin's Book on the Origin

Why was the English naturalist Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species (1859) so controversial?

A) Darwin claimed that women were inherently inferior to men and that they therefore should not be accorded rights of citizenship or property.
B) Darwin challenged Judeo-Christian dogma, arguing that life had taken shape over millions of years through a process called evolution, not through God's miraculous creation of the universe in six days.
C) Darwin believed that nonwhite peoples were inherently superior to and more highly evolved than whites.
D) Darwin argued that the principles of the scientific method, which had been in use since the scientific revolution, were fundamentally flawed.