“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 circling 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.”
Last paragraph of Origin of Species, at least in some versions.
Makes a considerably stronger case for a Creator being involved that I remembered.
Turns out I exactly agree with Darwin. Quite a shock to me.
I study this a lot, having a lifelong interest in biology.
There is right now ZERO DOUBT that mutations can happen in an animal/plants genetic sequences.
There is ZERO DOUBT that that change/mutation can be passed on to its offspring.
That is what evolution means.
But at the same time, there is ZERO DOUBT that a simple theory of evolution can IN ANY WAY explain how it all started, what is exactly The Breath of Life”?
Even for the simplest cells or fungi, there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of cellular “machines”, MILLIONS of different types of proteins, it couldn’t have evolved all at once, and it couldn’t have evolved in a step fashion, because in a step fashion it simply wouldn’t have all the parts it needed to eat and reproduce.
Irreducible complexity.