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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.

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.
Thanx L L. I have tried to make this point before...myself being a Christian that believes in evolution...but it is hopeless. They cannot fathom the idea that someone does not believe exactlly that same as they do.
I have challanges g3 to a debate on Noah, but I doubt he will take up the gauntlet.
Oldcats

You guys are really rockin' today!

But I can't believe you'd compare any FReeper to AlGore. It makes me feel dirty.

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!)

Nice spin. However, he knew he was attacking religion, he said so. He tried to cover up, was asking another whether he should try to cover it up even more. So yes, he was lying about his knowingly attacking religion with his theory. So my statement that he was a hypocrite in matters of religion is proven by the facts I presented.