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|  Subject: Darwin's Changing World View  Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:53 pm | |
| I spotted this little chart and thought it was a pretty cool depiction of Charles Darwin's evolution in views from traditional Theist to "modern" Deist.
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:45 pm | |
| That's very interesting. I was just reading this book about Darwin and how he, being a devout Christian, went to his deathbed convinced he had committed blasphemy.
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:22 pm | |
| | interesting...where did you find this? |
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:37 pm | |
| | michael1111 wrote: | | interesting...where did you find this? |
I don't remember now...  
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:52 pm | |
| damn! i want to use the chart to stick it to some grumpy atheists 
(they'll want the source) |
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:54 pm | |
| Been pissing off those grumpy atheists again have you? 
I'll see if I can find it.
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:59 pm | |
| Okay I think it was from this book...
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| | Subject: Re: Darwin's Changing World View Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:52 pm | |
| | Quote: | | I spotted this little chart and thought it was a pretty cool depiction of Charles Darwin's evolution in views from traditional Theist to "modern" Deist. |
I wonder if the author cites book, chapter, and verse for this Darwinian Deism evolution. Did Darwin actually express a Deistic worldview in writing? I think that he and his defenders denied that he was an Atheist, but Huxley himself claimed to be an Agnostic, not a Deist.
I assume that by "Physical" he means in-organic matter, and by "Organic" he refers to living organisms. But the wording makes it sound like we exist in two separate "worlds", like the old body-and-soul worldview. Did Darwin ever express his opinion on the duality of flesh and spirit? |
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