surprising info, anyone can verify in the book?

January 18, 2006

Drutakarma Prabhu said in one of his lectures something like this:

"If you read carefully Darwin's Origin of Species you will find that he

tried to explain how God created different species...".

Your servant,

Abhirama das

> 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."

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