From Darwins letters

[Guest guest]

"I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and

especially the nature of man... I am inclined to look at everything as

resulting from designed laws... All these laws may have been

expressly designed by an omniscient Creator, who foresaw every

future event and consequence. But the more I think, the more

bewildered I become."

 

"I am conscious that I am in an utterly hopeless muddle. I cannot

think that the world, as we see it, is the result of chance; and yet I

cannot look at each separate thing as the result of Design."

 

I could give many most striking and curious illustrations in all

[living] classes; so many that I think it cannot be chance."