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To: Lurking Libertarian
You win the point on his stating that life was originally created. However, what Darwin said in matters of religion and what he meant were totally different things. The man was a hypocrite as the following passage from his letters shows:

"P.S. Would you advise me to tell Murray [his publisher] that my book is not more un-orthodox than the subject makes inevitable. That I do not discuss the origin of man. That I do not bring in any discussion about Genesis, &c, &c., and only give facts, and such conclusions from them as seem to me fair.

Or had I better say nothing to Murray, and assume that he cannot object to this much unorthodoxy, which in fact is not more than any Geological Treatise which runs sharp counter to Genesis."
From: Daniel J. Boorstein, The Discoverers, page 475.


1,954 posted on 03/25/2002 7:52:02 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
You win the point on his stating that life was originally created. However, what Darwin said in matters of religion and what he meant were totally different things. The man was a hypocrite as the following passage from his letters shows:

You keep changing the subject. You claimed (in post #1750) that all evolutionists were atheists, and that neither Darwin nor any other evolutionist ever said that God created life which evolved from that point. I replied (in post #1812) that Darwin said exactly that in The Origin of Species. You now respond that Darwin "was a hypocrite" because he wrote a letter worrying that Biblical Literalists would have a problem with his book. (Another prediction of Darwin's that came true!)

The point is not whether Darwin was a Biblical Literalist. Had you made that claim, I would have agreed with you; no evolutionist has ever believed in a word-for-word literal interpretation of Genesis 1-3; neither, for that matter, do many religious people who are not evolutionists. But that is simply not the issue we were discussing. You were claiming that there can be no such thing as a Theistic Evolutionist, and that evolution is inherently atheistic. I proved you wrong.

Your problem seems to be that you cannot imagine that there can be people who believe in God but also believe that parts of the Bible are allegories or parables. There are. They may be wrong (or you may be wrong), but they exist.

1,995 posted on 03/26/2002 6:05:04 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian
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