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Religion Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him…
- 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…
- The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
- It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to…
- I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas…
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant…
- I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is…
- The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
- 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…
- The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the…
- The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the…
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