From: Jim Armstrong (jarmstro@qwest.net)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:28:06 EST
An extensive and interesting collection of Charles Darwin's letters is
provided on
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/Darwin/pubns.html
It gives a pretty good sense of the Darwin's thinking. There is plenty
of indication that he had a regard for deity, but his reserve as to what
that divinity might be asking of us, and his hesitance to speak as one
with certain knowledge are quite in evidence, particularly in his latter
years.
JimA.
bivalve wrote:
>Just back from a guest lecture by Michael Ruse, the main point of which was the non-incompatibility of faith and evolution, as exemplified by Darwin. It was rather peculiar hearing a good explanation of the gospel from a professed nonbeliever (in his discussion of creation science, etc. as a distraction from the point of Christianity). Ruse identified Darwin's views at the time he was thinking about evolution as deistic.
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