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'''Evolution''' or Darwinism or the Theory of Evolution is an interpretation of scientific evidence attempting to explain how nature may have created itself without any assistance from a supernatural Being. We know Charles Darwin was a Creationist and a Christian prior to 1836. But after this date Darwin, in the ensuing two years, forsook the Bible, God and Christianity and became an apostate, materialist and atheist. He retained a deist and quasi theist shell to conduct his life under because he lived in pro-Christian nineteenth-century Victorian England, and because his wife and friends were devout Christians of whom he had no desire to offend.

'''Evolution''' or Darwinism or the Theory of Evolution is an interpretation of scientific evidence attempting to explain how nature may have created itself without any assistance from a supernatural Being (1). We know Charles Darwin was a Creationist and a Christian prior to 1836. But after this date Darwin, in the ensuing two years, forsook the Bible, God and Christianity and became an apostate, materialist and atheist. He retained a deist and quasi theist shell to conduct his life under because he lived in pro-Christian nineteenth-century Victorian England, and because his wife and friends were devout Christians of whom he had no desire to offend.

Harvard Professor Ernst Mayr

Harvard Professor Ernst Mayr

"There is indeed '''one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common,''' and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched. When Hull claimed that “the Darwinians did not totally agree with each other, even over essentials”, he overlooked one essential on which all these Darwinians agreed. Nothing was more essential for them than to decide whether '''evolution is''' a natural phenomenon or something controlled by God. The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and '''not the work of God''' was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin’s theories" (1991:99; boldfacing mine - R.M.).

"There is indeed '''one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common,''' and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched. When Hull claimed that “the Darwinians did not totally agree with each other, even over essentials”, he overlooked one essential on which all these Darwinians agreed. Nothing was more essential for them than to decide whether '''evolution is''' a natural phenomenon or something controlled by God. The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and '''not the work of God''' was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin’s theories" (2).

'''References'''

'''References'''

Mayr, Ernst ''One Long Argument'' (1991).

 

2. Mayr, Ernst ''One Long Argument'' (1991; boldfacing mine - R.M.).