That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
Charles DarwinI cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
Charles DarwinI fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
Charles Darwin... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Charles Darwin