But here characteristics are being passed down, and therefore it can be said that it’s the same being but slightly sharper senses etc, there’s nothing really unique about a fox or a rabbit with sharper senses, its only better at survival. But in the case of human beings there are other remarkable changes which put an element of doubt to the theory of natural selection.
Every single human on the planet has a different finger print. A different fingerprint doesn’t really aid survival, it’s not really a characteristic that is passed down, it just happens. This suggests to me that we are all designed by a maker i.e. God, and as for humans evolving it could be put down to God’s change in design and he wants us to be this way.
Was Darwin genuinely Religious?
Darwin didn’t take the Bible literally, he found parts hard to believe n came up with his own beliefs (natural selection etc). In particular he thought that if God was going to influence the world in any way he would do it through natural law not by a miracle. Darwin believed that the miracles shown in the early Bible were fiction and that the people then were more gullible then today.
Darwin’s theory of natural selection takes away the need for an external creator, so here it seems to me that if Darwin is taking away the need for a God who created everything so it seems to me that Darwin wasn’t genuinely religious. But Darwin has clearly missed one thing in his Natural selection argument which is how was the Earth created because the Earth cannot reproduce, or pass on characteristics seems like Darwin has overlooked the need for a creator to make the Earth and conditions for life.
Are there any parts of the Christian religion that seem to be threatened by Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection?
I don’t think Darwin takes all aspects of life into account in his Natural Selection theory. Darwin talks about the survival of the fittest, but he totally avoids the question of how the Earth came. I think Christianity has more answers to life and how we are here and the problems we face e.g. Death Suffering etc. but more importantly how the Earth came into existence.
I don’t think it’s logical to talk about evolution before you try to explain the existence of the World. Christians will always say that God made the Earth and Created Man and a Christian will never deviate from this view. Also a Christian will say that people change like what Darwin says because God changes his design of a Human being, so in this respect the Christian faith isn’t threatened. It is threatened from another angle. Darwin’s view seems very logical to a Potential Christian, and this ease and logicality will understandably put an element of doubt in to the potential Christian’s mind and therefore deter them from the faith.
