[_ Old Earth _] darwin's beleifs

[jasoncran]

some say that he was a christian when he wrote origin of the species
there's some doubt by his own admission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Da ... ious_views

look for the part that states that he started moving away from the tenets in 1840.

 

[Barbarian]

From the source you linked:

In his autobiography written in 1876 he recalled that at the time of writing the On the Origin of Species the conclusion was strong in his mind of the existence of God due to "the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist."

Seems that he thought he believed in God. And he's probably as good an authority as we could get.

 

[jasoncran]

From the source you linked:

In his autobiography written in 1876 he recalled that at the time of writing the On the Origin of Species the conclusion was strong in his mind of the existence of God due to "the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist."

Seems that he thought he believed in God. And he's probably as good an authority as we could get.

read on down. actually i will post it for you.

and that sound likes a diestic view not the cristian one.

 

[jasoncran]

Their talk turned to religion, and Darwin said "I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age." He agreed that Christianity was "not supported by the evidence", but he had reached this conclusion only slowly. Aveling recorded this discussion, and published it in 1883 as a penny pamphlet.[70][71] Francis Darwin thought it gave "quite fairly his impressions of my father's views, but took issue with any suggestion of similar religious views, saying "My father's replies implied his preference for the unaggressive attitude of an Agnostic. Dr. Aveling seems to regard the absence of aggressiveness in my father's views as distinguishing them in an unessential manner from his own. But, in my judgment, it is precisely differences of this kind which distinguish him so completely from the class of thinkers to which Dr. Aveling belongs." darwin was born in 1809

ten yrs before the book of the origin of species, and there his memiors that state that if an intellegence did it that it could any god? and we cant know for sure, not exactly christian belief to me.
as a beleiver would try to say the God did it.
this is the limit of science, it cant prove God. wasnt meant to.