05 maio 2015

What Did Charles Darwin Think Of Religion?

In 1859, the English amateur naturalist Charles Darwin published his seminal work, On the Origin of Species, or, to give its full title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. He summarized his theory of natural selection with: “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.” Darwin never mentions God’s hand in his theory…

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