"Darwin was well on his way to being ordaned in the Anglican church before he got distracted by sea turtles. It would be a good guess that it was more than lip service.
Accounts differ on how devout he was in later life. The story about a deathbed conversion (or reconversion) is apparently false. It appears that materialism had pretty much walked away with his thought by that point. Other Christians were more successful in keeping their faith while exploring down the avenues of biological evolution. It became a problem for mankind when it became the basis of a whole new philosophy that denied it WAS "a philosophy" but reduced the plants, animals AND man to self organized matter. The object of observation had swallowed up the observer. The rules man had formerly used as a tool to a pursuit carried out under his will, had become his dictator.
I guess I am sounding a lot like C. S. Lewis. He was one cool thinker who knew that when you take 1 - 1, you shouldn't expect anything other than 0.
Which is chronologically irrelevant.
It appears that materialism had pretty much walked away with his thought by that point. Other Christians were more successful in keeping their faith while exploring down the avenues of biological evolution. It became a problem for mankind when it became the basis of a whole new philosophy that denied it WAS "a philosophy" but reduced the plants, animals AND man to self organized matter.
This is NOT science's position on this matter, even if you repeat it 100 times, and hold your breath until you turn blue. Very few scientists take the position that scientific explanations can exclude other explanations for what goes on in the universe, now or ever.
I guess I am sounding a lot like C. S. Lewis. He was one cool thinker who knew that when you take 1 - 1, you shouldn't expect anything other than 0.
I guess you are sounding like a broken record, so enamored of the theory of science you have constructed in your own head, that you can't detect what's going on in the real world.