Charles Darwin was a deeply religious and conservative man ,in fact, didn't he hold some kind of religious office in the Anglican church, a degree in divinity?
I believe..
His faith drove this humble even simple man to search out the truth wherever the quest would lead..His competitor Owens even published research on the subject first because Darwin was so reluctant to challenge the ruling paradigm.
That even those who prattle about Creationism vs Evolution don't even begin to fathom the implication of a Universe without God.
That the chaos of of History i.e. 'evolution', validates the power and splendour of my religious tradition. Give unto Caesar....
I fathom that all the time - and frankly, a universe with a God is only more confusing to ponder than a universe without a God. The origins of the universe are unknown to me (for now :) but I simply can't replace one infinite with another infinite - that does me no good.
I think there is something beautiful about a nature that could produce collections of atoms that could ponder their own origin. I think it almost defiles that beauty to simply cast it all aside and replace it with something we've anthropomorphized into an answer. There is something mysterious about nature that we do not yet understand, and who knows, we may never understand it. But we do no favor to ourselves by ignoring the true wonder of nature in favor of another enigma - one that has NO hope of ever being truly understood.