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Originally Posted by Tokolosh
What's your explanation for posting those links atari?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...eligious_views
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...ws_on_religion
I posted the links to affirm for purposes of the debate that religion (or at least a belief in God) still has value even though evolution is true.
Evolutionary theory obviously has great value since it is, after all, true. What hasn't been as obvious for many people (many of them scientists) is that God (& Myth) has value as well still. At least particle physicists know the truth. This is not to say that creationism should ever supersede the teachings of science in school systems. On the contrary, religion and state should always be kept separate. Sadly, our current political climate regarding this "origin issue" proves that history has taught us nothing.
Darwin himself was a Christian, then an agnostic. He never stopped believing in God. As the links explain, he renounced Christianity after the death of his daughter. He stopped believing in a merciful God that one can appeal to for anything
by word, and this is correct, because God
is Natural Law. In my mind (notice the quotation marks), "God" must be "appealed to"
by deed in accordance to Natural Law. As far as our minds will ever truly comprehend, "God" and the Natural Laws of the observable universe are one and the same. Darwin would have probably liked the song "Big Sky" by The Kinks.