Big Bang?

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 16:11:37 CDT 2005


The quotation is unrelated to what I said.

On 10/4/05, jbor at bigpond.com <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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