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SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
I think Charles Darwin did. He certainly did not anticipate that his theory was incompatible with Christianity.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SunshineGirl Darwin was religious, as were most people, including most scientists, of his time.
He could not anticipate the incompatibility because he did not intend that, and it was invented by Christians frightened to question the Bible, failing to understand the basic point that he was positing how Nature works, not who drives it.
To Darwin and his fellows, their studies were showing even more of God's works, not denying there is any god.
He could not anticipate the incompatibility because he did not intend that, and it was invented by Christians frightened to question the Bible, failing to understand the basic point that he was positing how Nature works, not who drives it.
To Darwin and his fellows, their studies were showing even more of God's works, not denying there is any god.
Gloomy · F
@ArishMell He became agnostic with age.
[quote] "In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.— I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind." [/quote]
[quote] "In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.— I think that generally (& more and more so as I grow older) but not always, that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind." [/quote]
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@newjaninev2 Yes - but I was not analysing the how, only accepting they happen.
Religious people (other than the out-and-out literalists) would say, selection and evolution can be analysed scientifically but still happen by the work of a deity; non-religious do not need a god for them.
Religious people (other than the out-and-out literalists) would say, selection and evolution can be analysed scientifically but still happen by the work of a deity; non-religious do not need a god for them.