At 2:38 PM -0400 4/9/07, Allen Esterson wrote:
On 9 April 2007 Michael Sylvester wrote:
If I am not mistaken, I think that Darwin in his classic work
expressed some belief that the universe was propelled by some kind of
>a force. This has led some to believe that he believed in a God.
Michael is most likely referring to the phrase "by the Creator" added
to later editions of the Origin of Species."
To quote from Wikipedia:
The second edition of 3,000 copies was quickly brought out on 7
January 1860,[10] and added "by the Creator" into the closing
sentence, so that from then on it read "There is grandeur in this
view of life, with its several powers, having been originally
breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that,
whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of
gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and
most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
This is regarded as a political decision, not a theological one.
In fact, the death of his daughter Annie had pretty well eliminated
his last vestiges of belief he
--
The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that
people believe in it.
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