Darwin

OnceDust · Jun 23, 2004

Some have suggested to me that Darwin had a degree in Theology and yet was agnostic. I've also been told he modeled his Theory of evolution on the Genesis account, the order of created things, not their chronoligical time. While in Biology in highschool my teacher did a startling comparison. She put the order of creation by Genesis and then beside it put how Evolution claims things were made, and they were very similar. I lean towards theistic evolution for my understanding of creation, nut would appreciate clarification where Darwin is concerned.

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rmwilliamsll · Jun 23, 2004

to answer pieces of your posting:

He studied theology but did not get the degree.

His father, concerned by his son's apparent academic failure, and fearing that he would become a "ne'er do well", enrolled him at Cambridge to read Theology, with the hopes of Charles eventually becoming a parson. While at Cambridge, he came under the intellectual influence of scientific minds such as William Whewell and John Stevens Henslow which (combined with his interest in collecting beetles, which was encouraged by his cousin, William Darwin Fox) resulted in him pursuing natural history.

from: http://artzia.com/History/Biography/Darwin/

he was at least a mildly believing cultural Christian when he was young.
His wife was a devoted Christian and he did not wish to hurt her feelings and kept much of his religious speculations in hidden notebooks. If you wish to follow up on this, the event of his daughter's death (Anna) was crucial for him in turning from theology to natural explanations regarding the problems of theodicy. And these things greatly occupied his energies after her death at 10.

OnceDust · Jun 24, 2004

rmwilliamsll said:
to answer pieces of your posting:

He studied theology but did not get the degree.

from: http://artzia.com/History/Biography/Darwin/

he was at least a mildly believing cultural Christian when he was young.
His wife was a devoted Christian and he did not wish to hurt her feelings and kept much of his religious speculations in hidden notebooks. If you wish to follow up on this, the event of his daughter's death (Anna) was crucial for him in turning from theology to natural explanations regarding the problems of theodicy. And these things greatly occupied his energies after her death at 10.

Thanks for the help. The site was very informative.

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