Darwin on Intelligent Design

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Darwin on Intelligent Design

"HAVING BEEN ORIGINALLY BREATHED BY THE CREATOR INTO A FEW FORMS OR

INTO ONE" Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882). Origin of Species.

The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion

 

"Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the

view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it

accords better with what we know of the LAWS IMPRESSED ON MATTER BY

THE CREATOR,that the production and extinction of the past and

present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary

causes, like those determining the birth and death of the

individual."....

 

....."These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with

Reproduction;

 

.....Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most

exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the

production of the higher animals, directly follows.

 

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 cycling 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."

Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882)