Darwinism stated by Darwin himself: Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin — John Shaqi
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Darwinism stated by Darwin himself: Characteristic passages from the writings of Charles Darwin
Darwin, Charles
Evolution (Biology)
“The doctrine of evolution with which Darwin’s name would always be
associated lent itself at least as readily to the old promise of God as
to more modern but less complete explanations of the universe.”--Canon
BARRY.
“The fundamental doctrine of the theist is left precisely as it was.
The belief in the great Creator and Ruler of the Universe is, as we
have seen, confessed by the author of these doctrines. The grounds
remain untouched of faith in the personal Deity who is in intimate
relation with individual souls, who is their guide and helper in life,
and who can be trusted in regard to the great hereafter.”--_The Church
Quarterly Review._
“It appears impossible to overrate the gain we have won in the
stupendous majesty of this (Darwin’s) idea of the Creator and
creation.”--_Sunday-School Chronicle._
“It is certain that Mr. Darwin’s books contain a marvelous store of
patiently accumulated and most interesting facts. Those facts seem
to point in the direction of the belief that the Great Spirit of
the Universe has wrought slowly and with infinite patience, through
innumerable ages, rather than by abrupt intervention and by means of
great catastrophes, in the production of the results, in the animate
and inanimate world, which now offer to the student of nature boundless
scope for observation and inquiry.”--_The Christian World._
“Let us see, in the funeral honors paid within these holy precincts to
our greatest naturalist, a happy trophy of the reconciliation between
faith and science.”--_The Guardian._
“That there is some truth in the theory of evolution, however, most
scientists, including those of Christian faith, believe, and Mr. Darwin
certainly has done much to make the facts plain; but no scientific
principle established by him ever has undermined any truth of the
Gospel.”--_The Congregationalist._
“Christian believers are found among the ranks of evolutionists
without apparent prejudice to their faith. Professor Mivart, the
zoölogist; Professor Asa Gray, the botanist; Professor Le Conte and
Professor Winchell, the geologists, may be named as among these.”--_The
Presbyterian._
“In all his simple and noble life Mr. Darwin was influenced by the
profoundly religious conviction that nothing was beneath the earnest
study of man which had been worthy of the mighty hand of God.”--Canon
FARRAR.
“He has not one word to say against religion; ... by-and-by it may be
seen that he has done much to put religious faith as well as scientific
knowledge on a higher plane.”--_Independent._
“A celebrated author and divine has written to me that ‘he has
gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of
the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of
self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he
required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the
action of his laws.’”--_Origin of Species_, page 422.
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