[Rafterman]

I posted it as an informational piece, as well as to help establish Darwin’s motives for coming up with his blatantly atheistic “theory” of Evolution...

While I understand your motivation, I still fail to comprehend how one relates to the other. In my opinion, it's akin to denying the scientific validity of Galileo's discoveries on no other basis than because he was condemned by the Church as a heretic.

[GodGunsGuts]

Darwin's evo-atheist creation myth is being falsified by science on all sides. Indeed, it has gotten so bad for the Temple of Darwin, that even the evos are abandoning the HMS Beagle for a new God-denying evolutionary ship. But I thought my ping list would also be interested in Darwin's non-scientific reasons for coming up with his so-called “theory” of evolution, which, as Ernst Mayr (and Darwin himself) points out, is nothing more than “a long argument” devoid of macro-evolutionary data.

As for Galileo's discoveries being condemned by the Church, that is a myth that was created by evo-atheists to make it appear as though Christianity and Science have been at war with each other. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, the Catholic Church was quite open to Galileo's ideas, it was the Aristotelian science establishment that pressured the Catholic Church to go after Galileo. Of course, Galileo didn't help himself by insulting everyone around him, including the Pope.