[Elsie]

I would go so far as to say that it was opinions like yours that turned Darwin away from organized religion, but not away from his belief in a Creator.

Then you would be wrong...

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On that we have Darwin’s own word. On religious matters he said,

“I found it more and more difficult, with free scope given to my imagination, to invent evidence which would suffice to convinced me. Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress.”

[Natural Law]

"On that we have Darwin’s own word."

Let's use those. The concluding sentence of the Origin of Species is as follows:

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."