[Reeses]

My understanding is that Darwin's wife was a devout Christian, Darwin was not. His wife tried to convert him. She did not want to spend her eternal afterlife without him. He loved her greatly and he did not want to disappoint her. Still, as much as this bothered him he was unable to become a devout Christian.

This should have little bearing on the validity of his work though. He was a brilliant man, and also by definition a deadly warmaker. He was the genetic product of many thousands of years of brutal war, as are you and me.

[homeopath]

Actually Darwin studied to become a clergyman, he was a deist and therefor believed evolution was pre-planned by god. Some of what Darwin wrote in origin of species was incorrect as he was under the false impression that traits were passed down by blending. Also man didn't adapt due to war, we adapted because as bipeds, though we had the advantage of seeing over the grass in the savanna we could not move as fast and so there was an advantage in being able to outthink predators. Also as meat eaters our bodies had enough protein that a bigger brain was not cumbersome, and therefor there was no disadvantage to increasing brain size.