[donh]

Indeed, one of his criteria for a sound hypothesis was that it must leave no room for the supernatural. As he wrote to Lyell in 1859, "I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent."

"any one stage" of descent 1) refers to the theory of fossil descent and 2) does not eliminate God from the universe, only from the "equation" by which we calculate descent. Your generalizations are contradicted by the man himself, and an unwarranted over-generalization, in any case.

[gore3000]

The man hung out with atheists and knew darned well that his theory was an attack on religion. Also view the link by an evolutionist who says quite plainly that Darwin formulated the theory of evolution as an atheistic theory. Also view his following of another atheist Malthus, the high praise he gives him and his crediting him for giving him the impetus to formulate the theory of evolution.

As the letter I posted shows quite clearly, Darwin was a liar and a hypocrite about his religious views.