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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 …
  • … Boole’s letter In December 1866 Darwin received a letter from Mary Boole, a spiritualist …
  • … 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 …
  • … religion. See the letter Boole, like a number of Darwin’s readers, found a way …
  • … Boole asks Darwin about specific points of belief, such as a personal and beneficent God, he is not …
  • … laws, rather than of the direct will of God, is for him a source of consolation. But he also insists …
  • … he does not venture into such territory in this letter to a stranger. Emma Darwin …
  • … [My] judgment often fluctuates…. Whether a man deserves to be called a theist depends on the …
  • … been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. — I think that generally (and more …
  • … clear that he has never been an atheist. Does he believe in a Creator? Is he a theist? Such terms, …
  • … the late 1840s and early 1850s with his fiancée Henrietta Heathorn, a relationship that also …
  • … of its first publication.’ ( Pat Boone, WorldNetDaily, 3 Feb 2007 . Also see  Darwin would love …