Is from Chapter 65 in Book I.
Again, when man contemplates nature working freely, he meets with different species of things, of animals, of plants, of minerals; whence he readily passes into the opinion that there are in nature certain primary forms which nature intends to educe, and that the remaining variety proceeds from hindrances and aberrations of nature in the fulfillment of her work, or from the collision of different species and the transplanting of one into another. To the first of these speculations we owe our primary qualities of the elements; to the other our occult properties and specific virtues; and both of them belong to those empty compendia of thought wherein the mind rests, and whereby it is diverted from more solid pursuits.
Is from Chapter 66.
Bacon is a pretty solid ID proponent and would certainly be a evo skeptic as far as evolution goes for all things biological.
And we know he had great disdain for atheists and atheism.
From your post. Here is what he says about the creo movement to put ID into the classroom:
"because from this unwholesome mixture of things human and divine there arises not only a fantastic philosophy but also a heretical religion."
Thanks for the publicity.
Your "65" supports my case, not yours. Your '66' you will have to explain. I can't see how there would be anyway for anyone but a creo to say that condemns evolution.
"and that the remaining variety proceeds from hindrances and aberrations of nature in the fulfillment of her work, or from the collision of different species and the transplanting of one into another"
Hmmm. I guess that is why Darwin quoted him just below the title page of his famous book.