[muir_redwoods]

"The theory excludes God as a cause of nature, he writes, and any "rapprochement" between science and religion is not "desirable" and not consistent with Darwin's thought."

For what should be (but won't be) the last time, neither Darwin nor his theory discusses the causes of nature. He discusses the origin of speciation. The beginnings of life and the origin of the universe are quite outside of the Theory of Evolution. Honest people should stop conflating the two wholly different ideas. Dishonest people and fools will continue to not recognize the difference.