As the letter I posted shows quite clearly, Darwin was a liar and a hypocrite about his religious views.
The man hung out with atheists and knew darned well that his theory was an attack on religion.
He also hung out with the best the Anglican church had to offer. Does that make him a priest? Of course he knew a battle line would form around his theory. That is why he went out of his way to point out that his theory had no enlightenment to offer concerning the ultimate origin of life. The battle lines had already formed up for a century or more around what was then called "spontaneous generation"--and concerned itself only incidently about the question of whether God was responsible or not--and he wanted to distance his theory from that embroglio.
Also view the link by an evolutionist who says quite plainly that Darwin formulated the theory of evolution as an atheistic theory.
Oh piffle, I can say the moon is green cheese, but nobody will take me seriously until they taste a chunk. Somebody else has pushed a bunch of quotes from Darwin up above here, kindly point to one that suggests God couldn't have got the whole shebang rolling, according to Darwinian Evolutionary 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.
WHO BLEEDIN' CARES?--what a bunch of irrelevant whining. The question was, does Darwinian evolutionary theory necessarily eliminate God from the picture, and, regardless of how much you want to badmouth Darwin, the answer is, obviously not--on the official word of Darwin, and, incidently, the Catholic Church, and common sense.