I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.
Charles DarwinI would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Charles DarwinI have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
Charles DarwinI have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.
Charles Darwin