Big Bang?

jbor at bigpond.com jbor at bigpond.com
Tue Oct 4 07:04:15 CDT 2005


On 04/10/2005, at 2:32 PM, David Casseres wrote:

> I guess it's "agnosticism," but that's a category
> invented by deists.  It means nothing to science.

Sorry to have to correct you again, but it certainly meant something to 
Charles Darwin:

[...] In 1879 a letter came asking if he believed in God, and if theism 
and evolution were compatible. He replied that a man "can be an ardent 
Theist and an evolutionist", citing Charles Kingsley and Asa Gray as 
examples, and for himself, he had "never been an Atheist in the sense 
of denying the existence of a God". He added that "I think that 
generally (and more and more as I grow older), but not always, that an 
Agnostic would be a more correct description of my state of mind." 
[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin%27s_views_on_religion

Interesting information, well worth a look.

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