surprising info, anyone can verify in the book?

January 18, 2006

>Darwin on Int. Design

>Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)

>Origin of Species

>The Harvard Classics. 1909-14.

>XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion

>"Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the

>view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it

>accords better with what we know of the LAWS IMPRESSED ON MATTER BY

>THE CREATOR,that the production and extinction of the past and present

>inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes,

>like those determining the birth and death of the individual."...

>..."These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with

>Reproduction;

>...Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most

>exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the

>production of the higher animals, directly follows.

>There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers,

>HAVING BEEN ORIGINALLY BREATHED BY THE CREATOR into a few forms or

>into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according

>to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms

>most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."

I don't have the direct reference here, but I heard that Darwin wrote about

a Creator in the first editions of his book but later changed it and said

that he regretted having written it. At least I saw some quotes from Darwin

about this, but I don't remember were. We can try to do some research.

I a letter to one of his friends he later states that je imagined that life

had arisen from some combination of chemicals in some little pound long ago.

Ys, AKD

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