What are Charles Darwin's views on the Theory of Evolution?

Question

Specifically, how would he feel about theistic evolution, and intelligent design

Answer 1

on his death bed he repented for his evolution theories.
another atheist who saw the light in the last moment.

Answer 2

There were theistic ideas of evolution before Darwin, with the idea that there was divinely implanted within the various species a map toward which they would evolve over time. Darwin's great idea was that it was not an internal drive to evolve in a direction, but rather the response to environmental pressures that allowed certain mutations to survive more successfully. One of the reasons he waited for several years after returning to England (all the while writing about worms) was that he knew that his ideas were going to upset the apple cart. And we're still picking up the apples, although now it's the ID people who are tossing them around.

Answer 3

Australian biologist Michael Denton in his book "Evolution: A Theory in Crisis" maintains that from the time Darwin published his book On the Origin of Species until now, there has not been a single shred of evidence to support Darwin’s theory!

A well-informed scientist writes: “We admit there are gaping holes in the evidence for evolution. . . . Yes, evolution is only a theory. Believing in evolution, then, is an act of faith.”

Darwin himself frankly admitted: “If numerous species . . . have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution.”

And yet he fossil record reveals that different and very complex life forms DID appear suddenly and fully developed. As one professor of natural science commented: “Whales, bats, horses, primates, elephants, hares, squirrels, etc., all are as distinct at their first appearance as they are now. There is not a trace of a common ancestor, much less a link with any reptile, the supposed progenitor.” Are there any fossils of giraffes with necks two thirds or three quarters the accepted length? No, there are not. The truth of the matter is as stated at Genesis 1:25: “God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind. And God got to see that it was good.”

Answer 4

He went through a major depression and shaking of his foundation as he realized what he was seeing. He had issues, like many of us, with the concept of a loving god and the fact that the whole system here is based upon life feeding on life -- with animals running away, scared for their lives, from other animals. I know people try to talk about this being the result of original sin but it's completely silly -- why make animals suffer for the sin of some original human beings? There are other religious systems that maintain that this whole universe and everything in it (including us humans) are not from god -- and that god is not a projection of our ego thought system but instead is like we REALLY are (completely abstract and formless). The theologies get into how this universe was made but it gets a bit deep so I'll end it here. That makes much more sense to me -- no loving god could have made this place. And when people have an enlightenment experience, they experience themselves as what they really are -- not these bodies, etc. So ... the experience is there in case we want to find out directly.

Answer 5

Darwin at first wanted to become a priest. He had a degree in DIVINITY, NOT SCIENCE. Evolution is a religion, not science. Evolution cannot be proven and all evidence that supports evolution are null or inaccurate. Charles Lyell's Priciples of Geology destroyed Darwin's faith when Darwin was on the HMS Beagle.

Answer 6

Just to clarify for Smiley a couple posts above me.

That is a myth. Darwin never recounted evolution.

Not even (as the lie goes) on his deathbed.

Answer 7

By theistic evolution do you mean when the Jesus people had to admit there was evolution because it could be proven right before their eyes, deeming it the self proclaimed term "microevolution"?

Answer 8

He would probably throw up from laughing so hard a people trying to use science to make mythology seem more reasonable to believe. Creationism is so insane it is funny.

In response to smiley.george's comment. Jesus went atheist on the cross, and admitted his homosexuality..

The person that "saw" Darwin repent was not there when he died. His daughter/people that were there released statements that he never repented, etc.

Answer 9

he disbelieved his own THEORY, NOT FACT, like the way high school biology textbooks put it.
he found the design of the human eye absolutely amazing that he concluded that it must be created.
also missing links are never found.
SAY NO TO EVOLUTION, it will ruin your soul

Answer 10

There is no refuge from Allah, except unto Him.

try it as remedy for your eternal boredom.

Answer 11

Hold on, let me go dig up his grave and read his mind