Darwinian Theology
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:36 pm
I found this site interesting:
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/cd_relig.htm
It is taken from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and gives some insight into the mind of the man who fostered Evolutionary theory.
excerpt:
"(speaking of Christianity)... And this is a damnable doctrine.
Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vague conclusions to which I have been driven. The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course the wind blows... "
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/cd_relig.htm
It is taken from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin and gives some insight into the mind of the man who fostered Evolutionary theory.
excerpt:
"(speaking of Christianity)... And this is a damnable doctrine.
Although I did not think much about the existence of a personal God until a considerably later period of my life, I will here give the vague conclusions to which I have been driven. The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course the wind blows... "