Well, let's take a look. In On the Origin of Species, Darwin expressed his belief that God created the first living things. Which is consistent with the Bible.
On the other hand, Darwin's theory of evolution is not at all about the origin of life. Which of the four points of Darwinian theory do you think is about the way life began?
No, that's false.
Darwin was in the Galapagos in the early 1830s. He only realized what the evidence showed, some years later:
In October 1838, that is, fifteen months after I had begun my systematic enquiry, I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population, and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance; and it is astonishing to me, except on the principle of Columbus and his egg, how I could have overlooked it and its solution. This problem is the tendency in organic beings descended from the same stock to diverge in character as they become modified. That they have diverged greatly is obvious from the manner in which species of all kinds can be classed under genera, genera under families, families under sub-orders, and so forth; and I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me; and this was long after I had come to Down. The solution, as I believe, is that the modified offspring of all dominant and increasing forms tend to become adapted to many and highly diversified places in the economy of nature.
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F1497&viewtype=text (pages 120-121)
Actually, that's the reverse of what happens. The concept of the null hypothesis is important in this process. Every hypothesis must be empirically testable. If it is not testable, it cannot be a scientific hypothesis. So the predictions of the hypothesis are tested in a way that will either show the prediction to be true, or to show that it is not true (null hypothesis).
What happened was Darwin discovered an explanation for the evidence he found. While it contradicted his earlier beliefs about individual creation of organisms, it fit the evidence nicely. After years of investigation and thought, he finally concluded that species do change over time and form new species. (which AIG also now says)
As creationists, we must frequently remind detractors that we do not deny that species vary, change, and even appear over time.
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Before the time of Charles Darwin, a false idea had crept into the church—the belief in the “fixity” or “immutability” of species. According to this view, each species was created in precisely the same form that we find it today. The Bible nowhere teaches that species are fixed and unchanging.
Speciation, the formation of new species, is not evolution in action. Rather, it demonstrates the incredible variety God put within each created kind.
answersingenesis.org
Darwins God and Creator is not the God or Creator of the Bible.
"When I view all beings
not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become
ennobled. " (Great Books Of The Western World, vol. 49, Darwin, Origin of Species, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2003, p. 243)
"The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture." (Same vol. as above, Descent of Man, p. 593)
I showed you that Darwin already supported the idea that the origin of life came from materialistic means. Why? Because it is in agreement with evolution. Read again Simpsons quote. Life only comes from God. It comes the way God described in the Bible. Not the way Darwin believes. Evolution is contrary to the Bible. Huxley was a great evolutionist and atheist. Darwin would be also.
Oh yes, Darwin was an evolutionist long before the Galapagos expedition. His grandfather Erasmus Darwin was an evolutionist. His interests were philosophical and scientific. And these "interests were served by the "Lunar Society, a group well known in the history of ideas, who met at the time of the full moon....." And these were anti-clerical. (Charles Darwin, Peter Brent, Harper & Row Pub., 1981, p. 13-14)
In 1794 Erasmus published 'Zoonomia' subtitled 'The Laws of Organic Life'. Here he propounded a 'developmental theory'. He argued in speculative terms rather than factual. It would later be his grandson, Charles Darwin who would provide the so called 'facts' to this theory. (Brent, p. 14)
Charles Darwin became a member of the Plinian Society in 1826, which was devoted to the study of science In 1827, "a certain Mr. Grey had submitted his theory that the lower animals possess every faculty and propensity of the human mind and thus consciousness had an entirely material basis." (Brent, p. 43)
While at Cambridge in 1831, Darwin read 'Personal Narative of Travels to the Equinoctical Regions of the New Continent' by Humboldt. From this Darwin understood a sense of the unity of nature. "And it was this vision that Darwin kept constantly before him when considering the exotic phenomena that surrounded him on his excursions from the Beagle, and later when he was struggling with the ecological concepts,
as yet undefined by science, that underlay his evolutionary theories." (Brent p.98)
Darwin later wrote to a friend concerning Humboldt, "If you see him again ...say that I never forget that
my whole course of life is due to having read and re-read
as a youth his Personal Narrative." (Brent, p. 98)
Darwin was an evolutionist long before Galapagos. He was an evolutionist looking to prove evolution.
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