The final paragraph of the The Origin of Species" includes:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." [Emphasis added by me.]
That’s not enough. From a YEC perspective, Darwin has committed heresy, and must be characterized as an apostate for it.
The final paragraph of the The Origin of Species" includes:
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." [Emphasis added by me.]
... I went to Jone's "Darwin's Ghost to find his final paragraph. It reads ...
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
I now think that Jones' work is an elegant masterpiece.