Big Bang?

[John Doe]

Perhaps.....or, perhaps Darwin was merely mollifying
his Victorian audience; maybe he was finding it
prudent politically to not invoke the dirty word
"atheist", esp. since he had enough flak as it was,
and he was of a rather noncontentious temperament
anyway.

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> 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.
> 
> best
> 
> 



		
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