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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
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- … controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in which they were conducted in …
- … ways. Many of Darwin's leading supporters were Christian, and found various ways of reconciling …
- … tried to draw Darwin out on his own religious views, and the implications of his theory for religion …
- … controversial topic of design. The first is between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray, taking as …
- … letter from naturalist A. R. Wallace to Darwin on design and natural selection. The third is a …
- … C. R. to Gray, Asa, 3 July [1860] Darwin writes to Gray and tells him Origin has “stirred …
- … Asa, 17 Sept [1861] Darwin writes to Gray about botany and his botanical experiments. He also …
- … Asa, 11 Dec [1861] Darwin writes to Gray about politics and his forthcoming botanical papers. …
- … his concluding paragraph, where he ought to have brought in and contrasted natural and artificial …
- … fragment at the base of my precipice”. Darwin and Wallace Letter 5140 — …
- … to stress frequency of variations. Darwin and Graham Letter 13230 — …
- … his work may lead him to discount what cannot be proved, and advises that there are some things …
- … from two superstitions: the dogma of the permanent species and the need of an act of intervention to …
- … He talks about his dislike of the conclusion of the book and how he instead “humbly accepts God’s …
- … 1866 In this letter marked “private”, mathematician and teacher Mary Boole asks whether Darwin …
- … to natural events. In the postscript, he feels that theology and science should each run its own …
- … of free-thought, Darwin feels that direct attacks on Christianity and theism produce hardly any …
What did Darwin believe?
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What did Darwin really believe about God? the Christian revelation? the implications of his theory of evolution for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the publication of Origin of species (1859). They are…
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- … for religious faith? These questions were asked again and again in the years following the …
- … are still asked today by scholars, scientists, students, and religious believers. The questions have …
- … But Darwin was very reticent about his personal beliefs, and reluctant to pronounce on matters of …
- … views, presented as a gradual migration from Anglican Christianity to agnosticism. But this was …
- … the development of his thought, or of his innermost beliefs and feelings. A far more revealing …
- … sought to draw him out on matters of personal belief, and to explore the religious implications of …
- … fame grew. Young naturalists, sceptical writers, clergymen, and educators wrote to him about his …
- … … with the following belief: That God is a personal and Infinitely good Being … That …
- … Darwin about specific points of belief, such as a personal and beneficent God, he is not very …
- … suggested in Origin of species , that to regard the pain and suffering of the world as an outcome …
- … But he also insists that he is not an authority on religion, and so should not be called upon to …
- … denying the existence of a God. — I think that generally (and more and more so as I grow older), but …
- … Is he a theist? Such terms, he suggests, are so vague and variable that they might mean almost …
- … uncertainty about questions such as the existence and nature of God. For Darwin, it also seems to …
- … there are certain questions that can be answered by science, and other questions that can not. …
- … some of these matters many years earlier with his cousin and fiancée, Emma Wedgewood. In their …
- … There is a marked tension in Emma’s letter between reason and feeling, and between the feared …
- … to religion. He kept his views largely to himself, and allowed his differences of belief with Emma …
- … wife, supportive of her husband. Her religious piety and wifely devotion have appeared only as a …
- … views. They also show that Emma’s beliefs were not simple and unwavering, but a product of intensive …
- … charting his spiritual journey from Calvinism to theism. Many of these writings were widely read in …
Essay: Evolution & theology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude of theologians toward doctrines of evolution, from the nebular hypothesis down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of…
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- … —by Asa Gray EVOLUTION AND THEOLOGY The Nation, January 15, 1874 The attitude …
- … down to ‘Darwinism,’ is no less worthy of consideration, and hardly less diverse, than that of …
- … of evolution, ‘considered as illustrative of the wisdom and beneficence of the Almighty.’ It was …
- … from some earlier discourses of the author upon ‘Genesis and Geology,’ ‘Science and Scripture not …
- … we call attention to a recent essay, by an able and veteran writer, on the other side of the …
- … to review them in connection. Theologians have a short and easy, if not wholly satisfactory, way of …
- … one savant against another. Already, amid the currents and eddies of modern opinion, the …
- … no means all arrayed upon one side of the question in hand. And indeed, in the present transition …
- … than that the whole stress should bear upon a single point, and that perhaps the authority of an …
- … the least–probably not at all help to reconcile science and religion. Therefore, it is not to be …
- … the other hand, he has the advantage of being a naturalist, and the son of a naturalist, as well as …
- … Dr. Hodge’s exposition of ‘theories of the universe’ and kindred topics–and in no captious spirit– …
- … Probably from the lack of familiarity with prevalent ideas and their history, the theologians are …
- … for its application in respect to questions of the origin and relations of existing species has gone …
- … How these questions of derivation came naturally and inevitably to be revived, how the cumulative …
- … forms impressed itself upon the minds of many naturalists and thinkers, Mr. Henslow has briefly …
- … it has become ‘infinitely more probable that all living and extinct beings have been developed or …
- … forms, than that they, with all their innumerable races and varieties, should owe their existences …
- … for the writer was discussing evolution in its relations to theism, not to Biblical theology, and …
- … and quite foreign to the true, humble, liberal spirit of Christianity; they are so evidently …
Darwin in letters, 1880: Sensitivity and worms
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‘My heart & soul care for worms & nothing else in this world,’ Darwin wrote to his old Shrewsbury friend Henry Johnson on 14 November 1880. Darwin became fully devoted to earthworms in the spring of the year, just after finishing the manuscript of…
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- … explored the complexities of movement, forms of sensitivity, and the ability of organisms to adapt …
- … upon Darwin’s early observations of infants, family pets, and zoo animals begun in the late 1830s. …
- … between human races, the foundations of the moral sense, and the harmony of evolution and creation. …
- … to secure a Civil List pension for Alfred Russel Wallace, and continued his aid for James Torbitt …
- … of Erasmus Darwin the previous year. Controversy and Erasmus Darwin Darwin’s most …
- … well by his relations, many of whom had provided manuscripts and memories of his grandfather passed …
- … full of lively discussions on the philosophy of Berkeley and Rousseau, the politics of the East …
- … landholdings in Lincolnshire. Chester found much pleasure and inspiration burrowing away in archives …
- … from J. L. Chester, 3 March 1880 ). Darwin’s sons George and Leonard also continued to research the …
- … warmed to George: ‘he had been alarmed at a Wrangler, and expected a tall thin man in spectacles, …
- … produced in honour of Darwin’s birthday. Krause enlarged and revised the essay for the book, partly …
- … yet it appears to me … that direct arguments against christianity & theism produce hardly any …
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