This has no real context except that I will on occasion grab an interesting book and find a bit of information that must be shared. I found "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" at my school library and thought it would be fun to take a look and see if I could understand his position a little better. Just this quote is enough to think about:
" But I may say that 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 existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide. I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came, and how it arose. Nor can I overlook the difficulty from the immense amount of suffering through the world. I am, also, induced to defer to a certain extent to the judgement of the many able men who have fully believed in God; but here again I see how poor an argument this is. The safest conclusion seems to me that the whole subject is beyond the scope of man's intellect; but man can do his duty." (p.276-277)
I thought it quite interesting to see his reasoning and it gave a little more insight into how he saw things. Anyways, time is short but let me know your thoughts on this.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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