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  • darwin was purely a scientific believer, if he believed in god do you think he would've questioned "god's so-called work" the church hated darwnism & called him a heratic, most scientists/physisits are non believers
  • believe it or not the common knoledge says that darwin was just a scientist but those who knew him say that even he admitted that his theory was damn near impossible. The reason that it was formed in the first place was that the Government paid him to form a theory of creation that did not involve God. Darwin did create his theory but at the time he delivered it to the government he told them "here it is but it is extremely unlikely to have happened this way".
  • Darwin spent his whole life trying to prove he doesn't exist. Guess what? He couldn't do it. Now he knows, but it's too late.
  • He studied theology at Cambridge to become a minister. He also wrote that he believed that natural design proved that god exsisted. He was actually quite religious.
  • Darwin was going to school to become a Minister, although that was not his choice (his father was pushing him into it). While at Cambridge he became very interested in other fields (Geology, Botany, et cetera) which culminated into his first journey on the Beagle. He ended up collecting and documenting amazing things, and his friends in the scientific community urged him to write a paper about his theory. He ended up writing his famous, On The Origin of Species but was hesitant to publish it. Darwin was a religious man, but how religious he was after his discoveries one cannot tell. The term, "the Creator" is in the Origin of Species - but many speculate that he added it due to social pressures, while others claim he actually believed that a supreme being set everything into motion and nature took its course and did everything else. So in short: he started off as a religious man, but definitely had his views changed during his lifetime - the extent to which we can only speculate.
  • In his younger life he was definitely a Christian, and studied for the Ministry at university. In later life, his belief definitely decreased, particularly with the death of his beloved daughter. He did not talk or write about religion, but he did not attend church in his later days. It would be plausible to believe he died an atheist or agnostic. The story about his deathbed conversion to Catholicism is definitely made up.
  • Holy Hell Blade1, what freakin' text books were you reading?? A few million on them having been written by creationists. Darwin studied for the priesthood. He lost his sister to an illness which shook his faith somewhat - but he was already working on his theory by that stage. Others (eg: Wallace) at the time were developing the same theory and they were godly folk - they assumed they were just working out "how" god did it. Even then (almost 200 years ago) they were prepared to say "well, obviously those parts of the bible are not literal." and happily continue a faith in god without shutting their eyes, ears and minds off.
  • It was said, that at his end of life, he said “I just made a theory, but they turned it into a religion”

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