How I came to believe (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, October 08, 2015, 12:13 (3333 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I am aware of your view and Tony's view of evolution, and of the difficulties of making a bush and of the enormous skips and jumps (some of which also bothered Darwin), and I expressed my admiration for the article you presented to us, apart from one small criticism: “It's a pity he talks about "Darwin's theory of biological origins" as "atheism's creation myth", when he must know that Darwin's theory of evolution does not cover creation.”
May I now take it that you are happy with Darwin's conclusion that the Creator originally breathed life into a few forms or one, and may I ask whether you agree with me that it is wrong for both atheists and anti-Darwin theists to misrepresent Darwin's theory of evolution as “atheism's creation myth”?-DAVID: I've explained why I don't agree with Darwin other than common descent which may well be guided. Darwin vacillated about a 'creator'.-But you have not said whether you are happy with what Darwin actually wrote at the conclusion of Origin. I am also quite shocked at your continued refusal to distance yourself from those atheists and anti-Darwin theists who misrepresent Darwin's theory of evolution as “atheism's creation myth” when you have actually criticized Darwin for NOT dealing with creation and when he himself made it crystal clear that his theory was not atheistic.