It is well known by people who studied Darwin that he spent about 21 years before finally publishing his theory of evolution. What made him take so ĺong and what finally triggered the publication.
Darwin was born a devout Christian and struggled with his theory and his wife's devout Christian beliefs. It was only after his daughter's death at the age of 10 did he throw all restictions aside to become agnostic due to being "overwhelmed" with grief.
Though times might come but only tough people last especially in the Kingdom of God.

The Evolution of Darwin

The scientist's problem with God did not spring from his theory.

Dinesh D'Souza

It was in 1859—exactly a century and a half ago—that Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. It is perhaps the most controversial book of the past millennium, and the work that has since made Darwin the patron saint of modern atheism. According to Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."

Evolution does seem to turn many Christians into unbelievers. A famous example is the distinguished Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson. Evolution gave him a profound sense of intellectual liberation from his Baptist upbringing in the South. Evolution also makes some people secular evangelists for the Darwinist cause. Michael Shermer was an evangelical Christian studying at Pepperdine University when his study of evolution convinced him to give up his faith. Shermer is now the editor of Skeptic magazine.

So does a belief in evolution automatically lead to disbelief in God? Actually, Darwin didn't think that. Darwin was not an "intellectually fulfilled atheist"; rather, he called himself an agnostic. Atheists say God does not exist, while agnostics say they don't know one way or the other. Moreover, Darwin did not boast about his unbelief; rather, he approached it with marked public caution. Shocking the mores of traditional believers may be Dawkins's thing, but it certainly wasn't Darwin's.

Here we must distinguish between Darwin the scientist and Darwin the unbeliever. Darwin, who was raised Anglican and even considered becoming a clergyman, did eventually relinquish his Christian faith. But he did not do so because of evolution.

The story is told in Adrian Desmond and James Moore's authoritative biography, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. When Darwin's daughter Annie died at age 10, Darwin came to hate the God he blamed for this. This was in 1851, eight years before Darwin released Origin of Species.

Around the time of Annie's death, Darwin also wrote that if Christianity were true, then it would follow that his grandfather Erasmus Darwin and many of his closest family friends would be in hell. Darwin found this utterly unacceptable, given that these men were wise and kind and generous. Darwin's rejection of God was less an act of unbelief than a rebellion against the kind of God posited by Christianity. A God who would allow a young girl to die and good people to go to hell was not anyone whom Darwin wanted to worship.

When Darwin published his work on evolution, the American biologist Asa Gray wrote Darwin to say that his book had shown God's ingenious way of ensuring the unity and diversity of life. From Gray's point of view, Darwin had deepened man's understanding of divine teleology. Darwin praised Gray for seeing a point that no one else had noticed. In later editions of his books, Darwin went out of his way to cite the English writer Charles Kingsley, who described evolution as compatible with religious belief. To the end of his life, Darwin insisted that one could be "an ardent theist and an evolutionist."

Some of Darwin's followers, however, were attracted to Darwin's theory precisely because they saw it as helping overthrow the Christian case for divine creation. Thomas Henry Huxley, for example, noted that evolution's "complete and irreconcilable antagonism" toward Christianity constituted "one of its greatest merits."

So why didn't Darwin correct his overenthusiastic advocate? Here is where the story gets complicated. Over time, Darwin's hostility to Christianity did play a role in his scientific views. While Darwin was originally very modest about evolution—a theory to account for transitions from one life form to another—he became increasingly insistent that evolution was an entirely naturalistic system, having no room for miracles or divine intervention at any point. When Darwin's co-discoverer of evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, wrote him to say that evolution could not account for man's moral and spiritual nature, Darwin accused him of jeopardizing the whole theory: "I hope you have not murdered too completely your own and my child." Darwin's ultimate position was that it was disastrous for evolution to, at any point, permit a divine foot in the door.


http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/january/24.67.html

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xtianity turning people to atheism

kay1one2:
It is well known by people who studied Darwin that he spent about 21 years before finally publishing his theory of evolution. What made him take so ĺong and what finally triggered the publication.
Darwin was born a devout Christian and struggled with his theory and his wife's devout Christian beliefs. It was only after his daughter's death at the age of 10 did he throw all restictions aside to become agnostic due to being "overwhelmed" with grief.
Though times might come but only tough people last especially in the Kingdom of God.

Too dumb to know the difference between an agnostic and an atheist ?.

Correction. Darwin was never an atheist.
Darwin suffered the same mental torment that all truth seekers go through when factual truths overwhelm deeply rooted preconditioned beliefs and superstitions.

Darwin, just Galleleo and Isaac Newton before him, sought hard for a compromise way to smuggle god into his new discoveries.

Therefore, his grief was the grief of all truth seekers.

Who knows?

plaetton:


Too dumb to know the difference between an agnostic and an atheist ?.

Correction. Darwin was never an atheist.
Darwin suffered the same mental torment that all truth seekers go through when factual truths overwhelm deeply rooted preconditioned beliefs and superstitions.

Darwin, just Galleleo and Isaac Newton before him, sought hard for a compromise way to smuggle god into his new discoveries.

Therefore, his grief was the grief of all truth seekers.

The difference is stated in the article clearly. I used the term "atheist" to pass the message across in the heading. Your insolence just goes to show your frustration and lack of decency.

mujahid1339:
xtianity turning people to atheism

Islam (is-lame) turning others to cannibals!

kay1one2:


The difference is stated in the article clearly. I used the term "atheist" to pass the message across in the heading. Your insolence just goes to show your frustration and lack of decency.

That is the point here , my dear friend.
You should never be allowed to pass on, deliberately or subtly, falsehoods, any falsehood, simply because you want to promote your own myopic worldview.
I certainly will not allow you.

So, you have been rightly served.

mujahid1339:
xtianity turning people to atheism

And islam is turning people into mor.ons paedophiles and murderers.

Jagoon:

And islam is turning people into slowpoke.s paedophile and murderers.

Your name indeed is 'jagoon'...Always writing jargons.

plaetton:


That is the point here , my dear friend.
You should never be allowed to pass on, deliberately or subtly, falsehoods, any falsehood, simply because you want to promote your own myopic worldview.
I certainly will not allow you.

So, you have been rightly served.

That doesn't absolve darwin of being someone who doubted God's existence. If you didn't get that idea then you should question your level of understanding.

kay1one2:


That doesn't absolve darwin of being someone who doubted God's existence. If you didn't get that idea then you should question your level of understanding.

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Even you, my friend, have doubted god's existence. You do it everyday when you engage in your loud and lenthy prayers 5 or 6 times a day. You do it when you go for special prayers, to night vigils, sow seeds, and especially when you blame the devil for bad things that happen.

Everyone who embarks on a scientific quest to unravel the mysteries of life and existence must inevitably question the existence of god.

Rilwayne001:


Your name indeed is 'jagoon'...Always writing jargons.

Just like mohamad wrote a lot of jargons in that satanic terrorism manual called quoran.

plaetton:
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Even you, my friend, have doubted god's existence. You do it everyday when you engage in your loud and lenthy prayers 5 or 6 times a day. You do it when you go for special prayers, to night vigils, sow seeds, and especially when you blame the devil for bad things that happen.

Everyone who embarks on a scientific quest to unravel the mysteries of life and existence must inevitably question the existence of god.

Even John the Baptist and some prophets (jeremiah, jonah, habakuk) had moments when they doubted the goodness of God; the starting point for most atheists. But the important thing is patience and faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. If we can wait in the reception for earthly bosses, how much more God?!

kay1one2:


Even John the Baptist and some prophets (jeremiah, jonah, habakuk) had moments when they doubted the goodness of God; the starting point for most atheists. But the important thing is patience and faith. Without faith it is impossible to please God. If we can wait in the reception for earthly bosses, how much more God?!

Faith is a phantom, a fleeting smoke that the ignorant and the little of mind console themselves with.
It has no reality outside of your head.
It is not a reliable arbiter of reality, but is only a palliative.

plaetton:


Faith is a phantom, a fleeting smoke that the ignorant and the little of mind console themselves with.
It has no reality outside of your head.
It is not a reliable arbiter of reality, but is only a palliative.

How do you know I even exist?!

kay1one2:


Islam (is-lame) turning others to cannibals!

Before I forget, the true Christians(Crusaders) ate Muslims in Marra! Why practice [size=14pt]AL TAKKIYAH[/size]

Jagoon:


Just like mohamad wrote a lot of jargons in that satanic terrorism manual called quoran.

You don't seem to learn, I guess you must be a pain in the neck for your parents! I really pity them!

Patiently waiting for an Atheist or a Trinitarian to claim Sir Isaac Newton!

Jagoon:


And islam is turning people into mor.ons paedophiles and murderers.

we all know the average xtian is a morally bankrupt thing just like their god.

summary in a nutshell?

Demmzy15:
Patiently waiting for an Atheist or a Trinitarian to claim Sir Isaac Newton!

What does the name "Isaac" tell you? Troll.

kay1one2:


What does the name "Isaac" tell you? Troll.

Was he a Trinitarian?!

mujahid1339:
we all know the average xtian is a morally bankrupt thing just like their god.

And it's your mohamed that slept with a nine year old baby amongst several other sluts that is not morally bankrupt

Jagoon:


And it's your mohamed that slept with a nine year old baby amongst several other sluts that is not morally bankrupt

or you mean your genocidal crucified dog god who raped millions including his mother.

kay1one2:


The difference is stated in the article clearly. I used the term "atheist" to pass the message across in the heading. Your insolence just goes to show your frustration and lack of decency.

Is this a true quote ?

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers--including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower. --C.S. Lewis

kay1one2:


How do you know I even exist?!

Is this really what atheism is about ?

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying,
"I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge" --Ravi Zacharias