Darwin Correspondence Project

This new section demonstrates the importance of Darwin’s correspondence for accurate historical understanding of his views on design in nature. It highlights a particularly relevant thread of correspondence between Darwin and the Harvard botanist Asa Gray, who was a devout Presbyterian, and includes Gray’s responses to both Darwin’s letters and his published works.

To help bring the letters to life, the Project has commissioned a dramatisation of the letters between Darwin and Gray. Find out more here

The web resource is being developed with funding from the John Templeton Foundation.

Darwin and religion is the first of several planned special-interest sections. It is under development, and will ultimately comprise five subject areas. The subject areas are:

• Design in nature
• Personal belief
• The conduct of debate
• Ethics and society
• Boundaries between science and religion

In addition to the Darwin and religion section, the Darwin Correspondence Project is undertaking to create a Darwin and ecology section with support from the British Ecological Society. The Darwin Correspondence Project website will be updated with more information about this resource in due course.