Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RightInEastLansing

my understanding was that darwin was interested in the origin of species, not the origin of life.
does anyone on this thread know if darwin ever claimed that life originated from non-living matter?


182 posted on 09/30/2005 4:11:05 PM PDT by drhogan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 131 | View Replies ]


To: drhogan
my understanding was that darwin was interested in the origin of species, not the origin of life. does anyone on this thread know if darwin ever claimed that life originated from non-living matter?

His actual, published theory said that the first life was "breathed by the Creator." (Origin of Species, last page.) In one of his diaries (not intended to be published, and published only long after his death), he speculated that life may have begun in a puddle of chemicals on the early earth. But that was clearly speculation; he never published it because he had no evidence for it.

215 posted on 09/30/2005 4:39:01 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 182 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson