[GodGunsGuts]

[Westbrook]

Yes, I’m sure he had a lot of fun positing those arguments to God in person.

[Borges]

"William Paley’s renowned argument that the design of a watch implies there must have been an intelligent watchmaker, and so design in the universe implies there must have been an intelligent Creator"

This argument predates Paley considerably.

[Buck W.]

Evolution and Christianity are perfectly compatible.

[uglybiker]

[demshateGod]

What a cute little girl Annie Darwin was. It’s sad that his faith, knowledge of scripture, and relationship with God wasn’t strong enough to overcome her tragic death. Sad that countless millions have been led to Hell by his subsequent rejection of God. We forget how Satan really knows what he’s doing. This attest the importance of a local church in earnestly contending with error as soon as it occurs, before it takes on a life of it’s own and millions are damned.

[sickoflibs]

Come on. He was a devoted Christian. The Noah's Ark paradigm of the 1800s broke down with too MANY new discoveries. His ideas were brilliant at the time. Stop trashing Darwin. I still cant figure how ID is supposed to fix into the 1800s Noah's Ark paradigm or what they are actually claiming.

[tacticalogic]

Looks more like “Arguments against God the I Want to Attribute to Darwin”.

[Mind Freed]

Darwin resented the biblical doctrine of future judgment

That is the only argument that I needed to hear to understand why Darwin created his THEORY. A lot of people don't want to believe in the possibility of hell. If you believe in heaven and hell and in God, then you have to believe that one day you will have to answer for your actions. That means that you might have to... hold on now... take RESPONSIBILITY for your actions. So instead, people create different religions and theories. Charles Taze Russel, the founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses, did the same thing. He didn't believe that a loving God could send someone to hell, so he created his own religion where hell does not exist.

Life is easier when you don't have to answer to anyone, unfortunately, that misleading thought will not save you from the certainty of hell. I'd rather believe and be wrong, then be wrong and go to hell.

[hurly]

Not news. Belongs in religion

[Alter Kaker]

You are quite the spammer. Darwin’s personal views are maybe interesting to historians. But we have the theory of evolution, not a theory of Darwin. You might find some horrible thing Isaac Newton once wrote, yet gravity still exists. So it goes for evolution.

[Chinstrap61a]

Everything all happened by accident ping.

[Soothesayer]

“Wrong, Charles. Natural selection is the culling of the ‘unfit’ individuals of a population. This can uncover previously unseen combinations of genes that have always been there since Creation and remain unchanged. However, it can act only on existing genetic information, and cannot produce anything new. It has nothing to do with design.”

Darwin did not know anything about genetics but we later discovered that new genes can come from mutation, genetic drift.

[JHBowden]

Guys, The Flinstones was not a documentary.