[hosepipe]

[ That would be inaccurate. For example, Darwin said, in the last sentence of the 6th Edition of On the Origin of Species: "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." ]

If true then Darwin was an ID'er.. You know intelligent design.. before it was called that..

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If true then Darwin was an ID'er.. You know intelligent design.. before it was called that.

That's exactly how I read the statement, hosepipe! LOLOL!!!

Here's a simple question on this theme: How did a "simple beginning" give rise to the fascinating multiplicity of what we observe with our own eyes every day in the world around us?

I conjecture even Darwin did't have the last word on that question, let along imagine that he did to begin with.

I imagine Darwin was a creature of his age. Probably as honest as they come, under the local conditions then acknowledged by the contemporary cognoscienti....

Am sleepy. Must go to bed. Good night, dear hosepipe!!! And pleasant dreams!!!