Poor Charles Darwin – I wonder if even he himself ever imagined how one day he would be a poster child. His name is held in nearly reverential awe by those who deny the existence of a Creator, in favor of a natural process that began by chance and has since continued to derive more information out of less. Proponents spend countless years and equally countless funds in an effort to reverse-engineer the observations recorded by Darwin in his seminal work, “On the Origin of Species”. Their ‘a priori’: no Creator in Darwin’s work, rather “pure science”.

Let us also not forget those who practically spit while uttering this “cursed” name. For many, Darwin represents the core of the ills of society and the detachment of souls from a higher purpose. Darwin has become synonymous with the devaluation of human life, and is blamed as the source of everything from a failing education system to abortion. Just give ‘em their “Old Time Religion” – it’s good enough for them.

To both groups, I offer the following extract from chapter 15 of “On the Origin of Species”. It is the last stanza from the last chapter of this work. Please, consider this if you will:

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

A “Creator” (with a capital ‘C’)?!? Oh yes. As well as “evolved”. The key is the word “forms”.

Sorry folks, Darwin was right in that he reported on his observations, and speculated based on those observations. It is the fault of those who twist his words to support their agendas that his name has become such a hot-button.

Now come on everyone – shake hands and make up.