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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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  • … and religious believers. The questions have taken on a new relevance in light of controversies over …
  • … design in schools, the resurgence of fundamentalism as a political force, and the combative rhetoric …
  • … silent on religion. His  Autobiography  contains a short discussion of his religious views, …
  • … It should not therefore be read (although it often is), as a neutral account of the development of …
  • … often seeking direction for their own. Mary Boole’s letter In December 1866 Darwin …
  • … Dear Sir Will you excuse my venturing to ask you a question to which no one’s answer but your …
  • … … with the following belief: That God is a personal and Infinitely good Being … That …
  • … of Science & the promises of religion. See the letter Boole, like a number …
  • … meeting point should still be far off. See the letter In his response to Boole …
  • … feeling. But he does not venture into such territory in this letter to a stranger. Emma …
  • … description of my state of mind. See the letter In this letter, Darwin is …
  • … & I cannot help being open with you. See the letter We know from Darwin’s …
  • … means so in eternity. There is a marked tension in Emma’s letter between reason and feeling, and …
  • … as a guide to moral conduct, as in his remarks on Paul’s letter to Galatians, chapter six: ‘read …
  • … it derive from inner feelings or instincts? In a letter written to Charles several months …
  • … the late 1840s and early 1850s with his fiancée Henrietta Heathorn, a relationship that also …
  • … … the first fashionable view. Letter from T. H. Huxley to H. A. Heathorn, October 1847. …
  • … of entire surrender to the will of God.’ (Letter from T. H. Huxley to C. Kingsley, September 1860.) …