“I may have done
something wrong..”
Concessions
and
admissions
of evolutionists
Listed as one of the 12 books that
have changed history (KJV Bible
being another), and referred to as
the ”most important biological
book ever written”.
2
French naturalist and philosopher
Jean-Batiste Lamarck offered the
first theory of evolution in 1809.
He considered a biological
evolution a progressive
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
(1744-1829)
development from simple forms to
the complex ones. He proposed evolution on the
following principles: 1) internal longing of
organisms to progress, 2) ability of organisms to
adapt to their environments, 3) issue of obtained
signs on inheritance.
3
Calling creationists “quote-miners”, Flank
goes on to write…
“The creationists are very fond of quoting
statements from prominent evolutionary
scientists, as well as science writers, in an
attempt to portray them as having doubts
about the validity of evolutionary theory. In
every instance, these quotes are taken out of
context and distort the writer's meaning.”
Out of Context: Hitching and the Creationists, by Lenny Flank (c) 1996
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/hitching.htm
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Early
concessions
Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to Asa Gray, a
Harvard professor of biology:
"I am quite conscious that my speculations
run quite beyond the bounds of true
science.“
Charles Darwin, quoted in N.C. Gillespie,
Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation
(1979), p. 2, University of Chicago book.
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Charles Darwin wrote of his theory…
"As by this theory, innumerable transitional
forms must have existed. Why do we not
Darwin attributed this lack to the
findimperfect
them embedded
in
the
crust
of
the
geological record and fully
earth?
Why
is
not
all
nature
in
confusion
expected that scientists to follow
[of halfway
species]
instead
of
being,
as
we
would “dig up” the evidence.
see them, well-defined species?"
Charles Darwin, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution
or Creation (1966), p. 139.
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What Dr. Raup has to say of the fossil record…
David Raup is the Avery Distinguished Service
Professor (emeritus) of Geophysical Sciences,
Evolutionary Biology, and The Conceptual
Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago.
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“We are now about 130 years after
Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil
record has been greatly expanded. We
now have a quarter of a million fossil
species but the situation hasn’t changed
much. The record of evolution is still
surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have
even fewer examples of evolutionary
transition than we had in Darwin’s time…
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what appeared to be a nice simple
progression when relatively few data were
available now appears to be much more
complex and much less gradualistic. ”
“Conflicts Between Darwin and
Paleontology,” Field Museum of Natural
History Bulletin 50, January 1979, pp. 22-25)
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Fossil record well represented…
“when estimates are made of the
percentage of [now-] living forms found as
fossils, the percentage turns out to be
surprisingly high, suggesting that the
fossil record may not be as bad as is
often maintained”
(Michael Denton, a medical doctor and
biological researcher, Evolution: A Theory in
Crisis, 1985, p. 189).
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Fossil record well represented…
“of the 329 living families of terrestrial
vertebrates [mammals, birds, reptiles and
amphibians] 261 or 79.1 percent have
been found as fossils and, when birds
(which are poorly fossilized) are
excluded, the percentage rises to 87.8
percent” (Denton, p. 189).
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G. Salet, Hasard et Certitude: Le Transformisme
devant la Biologie Actuelle (1973), p. 331.
"The problem of the origin of species has
not advanced in the last 150 years. One
hundred and fifty years have already
passed during which it has been said
that the evolution of the species is a fact
but, without giving real proofs of it and
without even a principle of explaining it.
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“During the last one hundred and fifty
years of research that has been carried
out along this line [in order to prove the
theory], there has been no discovery of
anything. It is simply a repetition in
different ways of what Darwin said in
1859. This lack of results is unforgivable
in a day when molecular biology has really
opened the veil covering the mystery of
reproduction and heredity . .
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“Finally, there is only one attitude which is
possible as I have just shown: It consists
in affirming that intelligence comes before
life. Many people will say this is not
science, it is philosophy. The only thing I
am interested in is fact, and this
conclusion comes out of an analysis and
observation of the facts.”
G. Salet, Hasard et Certitude: Le Transformisme devant la Biologie Actuelle (1973), p. 331.
15
"The theory of evolution suffers from
grave defects, which are more and
more apparent as time advances. It
can no longer square with practical
scientific knowledge.“
—Albert Fleishmann, Zoologist.
16
Louis Agassiz, Ph.D.,
M.D, professor at
Harvard, a
contemporary of
Darwins, and
considered the leading
expert of his time in
biology, geology, and
glacial theory.
Louis Agassiz
1807-1873
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"The origin of all diversity among living
beings remains a mystery as totally
unexplained as if the book of Mr. Darwin
had never been written, for no theory
unsupported by fact, however plausible it
may appear, can be admitted in science.“
—L. Agassiz on the Origin of Species,
American Journal of Science, 30 (1860), p.
154. [Darwin's book was published in
1859.]
18
"[In Darwin's writings] possibilities
were assumed to add up to
probability, and probabilities then
were promoted to certitudes.“
—*Agassiz, op. cit., p. 335.
19
" `The theory [of evolution]
is a scientific mistake.' “
—*Louis Agassiz, quoted in H.
Enoch, Evolution or Creation,
(1966), p. 139.
20
From the book Evolution from Space:
"When Darwin presented a paper [with
Alfred Wallace] to the Linnean Society in
1858, a Professor Haugton of Dublin
remarked, `All that was new was false, and
what was true was old.' This, we think, will
be the final verdict on the matter, the
epitaph on Darwinism.“
Fred Hoyle and N. Chandra Wickramasinghe,
Evolution from Space (1981), p. 159.
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"We still do not know the mechanics of
evolution in spite of the over-confident
claims in some quarters, nor are we likely
to make further progress in this by the
classical methods of paleontology or
biology; and we shall certainly not advance
matters by jumping up and down shrilling,
`Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his
prophet.' "—*Errol White, Proceedings of
the Linnean Society, London, 177:8 (1966).
22
Dr. W.R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in
the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles
Darwin's, Origin of the Species:
“This situation, where men rally to the
defense of a doctrine they are unable to
define scientifically, much less demonstrate
with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its
credit with the public by the suppression of
criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is
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abnormal and undesirable in science I am
not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or
that his influence in scientific and public
thinking has been beneficial . . the success
of Darwinism was accomplished by a
decline in scientific integrity.“
Dr. W.R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles
Darwin's, Origin of the Species:
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Prof. W.R. Thompson’s comments in his
Introduction to Everyman's Library issue of
Charles Darwin's, Origin of Species (1956
edition).
"This general tendency to eliminate, by
means of unverifiable speculations, the
limits of the categories Nature presents
to us, is the inheritance of biology from
The Origin of Species…
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“To establish the continuity required by
theory, historical arguments are
invoked, even though historical
evidence is lacking. Thus are
engendered those fragile towers of
hypothesis based on hypothesis,
where fact and fiction intermingle in an
inextricable confusion.”
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Prof. W.R. Thompson’s comments in his Introduction to Everyman's Library issue of Charles Darwin's, Origin of Species (1956 edition).
L.H. Matthews, "Introduction, Origin of
Species”, Charles Darwin (1971 edition).
"In accepting evolution as fact, how
many biologists pause to reflect that
science is built upon theories that have
been proved by experiment to be
correct or remember that the theory of
animal evolution has never been thus
approved.“
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Miles Eldredge, paleontologist American
Museum of Natural History:
"We paleontologists have said that the
history of life supports [gradual
adaptive change], all the while really
knowing that it does not."
Darwin on Trial, Phillip Johnson, p.59
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Mary Leakey, British
paleoanthropologist and wife of
Loius Leakey, once prominent
paleontologist:
"All these trees of life with their
branches of our ancestors,
that's a lot of nonsense."
(from an interview with Associated
Press, Dec 10 1996)
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“NONSENSE!”
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Evolution in
education
31
John T. Bonner, evolutionist, professor Princeton
University:
"We [evolutionists] have been telling our
students for years not to accept any
statement on its face value but to examine
the evidence, and therefore it is rather a
shock to discover that we have failed to
follow our own sound advice."
The Twilight of Evolution, Henry M. Morris, p.91
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G.A. Kerkut, distinguished British
zoologist and physiologist
"I personally hold the evolutionary
position, but yet lament the fact that the
majority of our Ph.D. graduates are
frightfully ignorant of many of the serious
problems of the evolution theory. These
problems will not be solved unless we
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bring them to the attention of students.
Most students assume evolution is
proved, the missing link is found, and all
we have left is a few rough edges to
smooth out. Actually, quite the contrary is
true; and many recent discoveries have
forced us to re-evaluate our basic
assumptions.“ G.A. Kerkut, quoted in
Creation: The Cutting Edge (1982), p. 26.
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Evolution and
Science
35
"It has been estimated that no fewer
than 800 phrases in the subjunctive
mood (such as `Let us assume,' or
`We may well suppose,' etc.) are to
be found between the covers of
Darwin's Origin of Species alone.“
—L. Merson Davies [British scientist],
Modern Science (1953), p. 7.
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James Conant, chemist
and former president,
Harvard University, credited
with transforming Harvard
from a finishing school to
world-class research
university. Winner of the
Priestly Medal for chemistry
(highest award). Recipient
of Presidential Medal of
Freedom.
1893-1978
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"Therefore, a grotesque account of a period
some thousands of years ago is taken
seriously though it be built by piling special
assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc
hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad
hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric
of science whenever it appears convenient.
The result is a fantasia which is neither
history nor science."—* James Conant,
quoted in Origins Research, Vol. 5, No. 2,
1982, p. 2.
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Michael Denton,
British-Australian
biochemist
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"The fact is that the evidence was so
patchy one hundred years ago that even
Darwin himself had increasing doubts as
to the validity of his views, and the only
aspect of his theory which has received
any support over the past century is where
it applies to microevolutionary
phenomena.”
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His general theory, that all life on earth had
originated and evolved by a gradual
successive accumulation of fortuitous
mutations, is still, as it was in Darwin's time,
a highly speculative hypothesis entirely
without direct factual support and very far
from that self-evident axiom some of its
more aggressive advocates would have us
believe."—*Michael Denton, Evolution: A
Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 77.
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"Ultimately the Darwinian theory of
evolution is no more nor less than the
great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth
century . . the origin of life and of new
beings on earth is still largely as
enigmatic as when Darwin set sail on
the [ship] Beagle."—Michael Denton,
British-Australian biochemist, Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis (1986), p. 358.
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"Evolutionism is a fairy
tale for grown-ups. This
theory has helped
nothing in the progress
of science. It is
useless.”
—*Bounoure, Le Monde
Et La Vie (October 1963)
[Director of Research at
the National center of
Scientific Research in
France]
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" `Scientists who go about teaching that
evolution is a fact of life are great con men,
and the story they are telling may be the
greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution we
do not have one iota of fact.‘ A tangled
mishmash of guessing games and figure
juggling [Tahmisian called it]."—
*The Fresno Bee, August 20, 1959, p. 1-B
[quoting T.N. Tahmisian, physiologist for the
Atomic Energy Commission].
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"The Darwinian theory of descent
has not a single fact to confirm it in
the realm of nature. It is not the
result of scientific research, but
purely the product of imagination.“
—*Dr. Fleischman [Erlangen
zoologist].
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Motives of
evolutionists
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Aldous Huxley, "Confessions
of a Professed Atheist,"
Report: Perspective on the
News, Vol. 3, June 1966, p. 19
[grandson of evolutionist
Thomas Huxley, Darwin's
1894-1963
closest friend and promoter,
and brother of evolutionist Julian Huxley.
Aldous Huxley was one of the most influential
liberal writers of the 20th century, “Brave New
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"I had motives for not wanting the world to
have meaning, consequently assumed it
had none, and was able without any
difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this
assumption . . The philosopher who finds no
meaning in the world is not concerned
exclusively with a problem in pure
metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove
there is no valid reason why he personally
should not do as he wants to do ....
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“For myself, as no doubt for most of my
contemporaries, the philosophy of
meaninglessness was essentially an
instrument of liberation. The liberation
we desired was simultaneously liberation
from a certain political and economic
system and liberation from a certain
system of morality. We objected to the
morality because it interfered with our
sexual freedom.“ -Aldous Huxley
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Dr. David Pilbeam, Phd Yale University,
Professor at Harvard University in Paleontology,
curator of Peabody Museum or Archeology,
member of the National Academy of Sciences.
“I have come to believe that many
statements we make about the how and
whys of human evolution say as much
about us, the paleoanthropologists and the
larger society in which we live, as about
anything that really happened.” Cited in
Bones of Contention, Roger Lewin, p.85
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R. Kirk, "The Rediscovery of Creation," in
National Review, (May 27, 1983), p. 641
"Darwinism is a creed not only with
scientists committed to document the allpurpose role of natural selection. It is a
creed with masses of people who have at
best a vague notion of the mechanism of
evolution as proposed by Darwin, let alone
as further complicated by his successors.
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“Clearly, the appeal cannot be that of a
scientific truth but of a philosophical
belief which is not difficult to identify.
Darwinism is a belief in the
meaninglessness of existence."
R. Kirk, "The Rediscovery of Creation," in
National Review, (May 27, 1983), p. 641.
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Evolution is a
religion
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Dr. Arthur Keith, Scottish anatomist
and anthropologist. He wrote the
introduction to an earlier edition of
Darwin’s Origin of Species.
“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We
believe it only because the only alternative is
special creation which is unthinkable.”
Cited in Origins?, by BG Ranganathan, p.22
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T.L. Moor, paleontologist
“The more one studies paleontology,
the more certain one becomes that
evolution is based on faith alone.”
(cited in Origins?, by BG Ranganathan,
p. 22)
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B. Leith, The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook
of Doubts about Darwinism (1982), p. 11.
"It is therefore of immediate concern to both
biologists and layman that Darwinism is
under attack. The theory of life that
undermined nineteenth-century religion has
virtually become a religion itself and, in its
turn, is being threatened by fresh ideas.
The attacks are certainly not limited to
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"those of the creationists and religious
fundamentalists who deny Darwinism for
political and moral reason. The main
thrust of the criticism comes from within
science itself. The doubts about
Darwinism represent a political revolt
from within rather than a siege from
without.“
—*B. Leith, The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook
of Doubts about Darwinism (1982), p. 11.
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"The hold of the evolutionary paradigm
[theoretical system] is so powerful that
it is an idea which is more like a
principle of medieval astrology than a
serious twentieth century scientific
theory has become a reality for
evolutionary biologists.“
Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
(1985), p. 306 [Australian molecular biologist].
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H. Lipson, physicist, professor, University of
Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology :
“In fact, evolution became in a sense a
scientific religion; almost all scientists
have accepted it and many are prepared
to ‘bend’ their observations to fit in with
it… To my mind, the theory does not
stand up at all…
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“I know that [considering creation theory] is
anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to
me, but we must not reject a theory that we
do not like if the experimental evidence
supports it.”
(“A Physicist Looks at Evolution”, Physics
Bulletin, 1980, p.138)
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"What is it [evolution] based upon? Upon
nothing whatever but faith, upon belief in
the reality of the unseen— belief in the
fossils that cannot be produced, belief in
the embryological experiments that refuse
to come off. It is faith unjustified by
works.“
—Arthur N. Field.
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T. Rosazak, "Unfinished Animal",
1975, p. 101-102.
"The irony is devastating. The main
purpose of Darwinism was to drive every
last trace of an incredible God from
biology. But the theory replaces God with
an even more incredible deity omnipotent chance."
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"the assumption that evolution is an
established fact of science is absolutely
false. Thus, evolution can only be correctly
labeled as a belief, a subjective philosophy
of origins, the religion of many scientists."
T. Rosazak, "Unfinished Animal",
1975, p. 101-102.
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Choose the building blocks for your life!
Meaning
in life
Marriage
Morality
Laws
God’s Word
CREATION
Evolution
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" `Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the
word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no
difficulty in conceiving that, at some former
period, this universe was not in existence;
and that it made its appearance in six days
in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being."—*Thomas Huxley,
quoted in *Leonard Huxley, Life and
Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. II
(1903), p. 429.
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Dr. Robert Jastrow, American
astronomer, physicist, agnostic:
Dr. Robert Jastrow
(September 7, 1925
– February 8, 2008)
"Scientists have no proof that life
was not the result of an act of
creation.“
Robert Jastrow, The Enchanted
Loom: Mind in the Universe
(1981), p. 19.
Received his A.B., A.M and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Columbia University in 1948. Joined NASA when it was formed in
1958. First chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee, which established the scientific goals for the exploration of the
moon during the Apollo lunar landings
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Served until his retirement from NASA in 1981. Director Emeritus of Mount Wilson Observatory and Hale Solar Laboratory
Darwin’s first edition of the
Origin of Species sold out the
first day of release.
Darwin, 7 years old
1809-1882
Age 51, just published
Origin of Species
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Key events shaping Darwin’s life and thinking…
 Mother died at age 8
 His father Robert, a physician, was an Anglican,
“freethinker” and “nonconformist”
 His grandfather, Erasmus, was a proponent of
Lamarck’s theory of evolution
 Became a student of Robert Grant, a proponent
of Lamarck
 His own unanswered questions about life…
 Death of his 10 year old daughter, Annie, in 1851
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The 1851 death of Darwin’s
daughter, Annie, at the age
of 10, marked the end of his
dwindling faith in Christianity.
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Used to jotting down daily notes on animal breeding, he
scrawled rambling thoughts about career and prospects on two
scraps of paper, one with columns headed “Marry” and “Not
Marry”.
Advantages:
Marry
“constant companion
and a friend in old
age ... better than a
dog anyhow”
Against:
Not to Marry
 “less money for
books”
 “terrible loss of time.”
Darwin, Charles (1958), Barlow, N, ed., The autobiography of Charles
Darwin 1809–1882. Edited and with appendix and notes by his granddaughter Nora Barlow., London: Collins,
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A typical satire was the later caricature in
Hornet magazine portraying Darwin with an ape
body and the bushy beard he grew in 1866.
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At first he did not doubt the literal truth of the Bible. He
attended a Church of England school, then at Cambridge
studied Anglican theology to become a clergyman. He
was convinced by William Paley’s teleological argument
that design in nature proved the existence of God, but
during the Beagle voyage he questioned, for example, why
beautiful deep-ocean creatures had been created where
no one could see them, or the problem of evil of how the
ichneumon wasp paralysing caterpillars as live food for its
eggs could be reconciled with Paley’s vision of beneficent
design. He was still quite orthodox and would quote the
Bible as an authority on morality, but was critical of the
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The 1851 death of Darwin’s daughter, Annie, marked
the end of his dwindling faith in Christianity.
When investigating transmutation of species he knew
that his naturalist friends thought this a bestial heresy
undermining miraculous justifications for the social order,
the kind of radical argument then being used by
Dissenters and atheists to attack the Church of
England’s privileged position as the established
church.[123] Though Darwin wrote of religion as a tribal
survival strategy, he still believed that God was the
ultimate lawgiver.[124] His belief dwindled, and his grief
at the death of his daughter Annie in 1851 made him
more certain in his scepticism.[125] He continued to help
the local church with parish work, but on Sundays would
go for a walk while his family attended church.[126] He
now thought it better to look at pain and suffering as the
result of general laws rather than direct intervention by
God.[127] When asked about his religious views, he
wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of
denying the existence of a God, and that generally “an
Agnostic would be the more correct description of my
state of mind.”[128]
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