Lets correct you and the previous answerer's because they are wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin
Read for yourself.
He was actually agnostic after 1851, before that CofE
I note that previous answers have as much truth about them as does Creationism. Indeed shows the same arrogance and lack of facts, even a wilful hatred of any sort of facts.
2007-06-08 23:08:18
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answered by Freethinking Liberal 7
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The story of Adam & Eve is a hoax. When members of the same family bear children, the offspring are always born with genetic defects like sterility and Mongolism (Down Syndrome). Didn't Charles Darwin live before Mary Baker Eddy invented Christian Science?
2007-06-09 06:12:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Like most of his time, he started indoctrinated in the church (lets face it, the alternative was ostracism and the sort of implacable religious hostility you find on Yahoo Answers). This led him originally to ask that his great work was only published after his death, when the religious bigots of the day could not ruin his life. He was, however, persuaded to publish earlier.
He had no doubt at all that man evolved, and had no belief at all in the Adam and Eve myth. You can read his great work, On the Origin of Species, for free online:
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species/
2007-06-09 06:19:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Darwin did not mention Adam or Eve in his Origin of the Species but what he did say was this:
"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 circling 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."
Cheers :-)
2007-06-09 06:23:02
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answered by chekeir 6
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I doubt it actually matters. He had an enquiring mind, which he used to develop a theory that some christians find so dangerous to their flimsy beliefs they attack it as though he was the first and last scientist in the history of the world.
He was, undoubtedly, a man of strong belief, who understood that looking for answers to the way the world works does not necessarily challenge either the status quo or the beliefs of others.
2007-06-09 06:08:24
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answered by thing55000 6
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You're wrong. Darwin was a Christian to start with but during his 5 year voyage, during which he came up with his Evolution theory he lost his faith and decided that life evolved without the aid of God from the so called primordial soup.
2007-06-09 06:15:42
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answered by chimerauk 3
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evolution does not believe humans come from monkeys, he hinted that we came from a common ansestor which was niether a monkey or a human. a poodle will never be the same breed as a great dane but they both share the common ansestor of the wolf.
And yes he was very religious and only gave out his theory because someone else was comming up with something similar.
2007-06-09 06:15:08
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answered by Anonymous
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Darwin never thought we came from monkeys, and what does his religion (if any) have to do with evolution?
2007-06-09 06:09:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Read all about Darwin - and the truth shall set you free!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_darwin
2007-06-09 06:17:54
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answered by Scabius Fretful 5
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I think he would have been an "Imaginist(???)" or "Idealogist(???)" that he gave his own conclusions by watching similarities from two species and avoiding its uniqueness in its creation.
pity of him.
If he were a Christian he would have appologized of his theory
2007-06-09 06:11:59
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answered by ponder of God's Desire 3
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