Darwin :
Was Married to A Christian, and brought up in a religious household.
He did not initially doubt the literal truth of the Bible. He attended a Church of England school, then at Cambridge studied Anglican theology to become a clergyman and was fully convinced by William Paley's teleological argument that design in nature proved the existence of God. However, his beliefs began to shift during his time on board HMS Beagle.
Began to lose Faith
He questioned what he saw—wondering, for example, at beautiful deep-ocean creatures created where no one could see them
This idea was his misunderstanding, because he didn’t know this:
Ecclesiastes 3:
11. He (God) hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
The 1851 death of Darwin's daughter, Annie, was the final step in pushing an already doubting Darwin away from the idea of a beneficent God
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