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How many references / citations of God, does Darwin use in his book?
I find it terribly difficult to get any answer to this question living in America. There are so many fallacies about Darwin and evolution out there. I am actually hoping to have a response from somebody who actually read "The Origin if Species" to have some sort on answer, I would read it to find out, but it is quite lengthy.
I am asking because I just finished watching a British series that referenced the term "Darwin's God" several times. It did so in the regard that if there was a God, that he/she/it put the laws of nature / the universe into motion, on a larger scale, and not on the scale that man has deemed a God to do.
But with all the fallacies out there stating all sorts of things, like Darwin was an Atheist, and that the modern version of evolution was actually penned by Darwin, it is just quite imposable to find this sort of information through a search engine.
And I am not so much looking for some opinion on this subject, I already am full aware of those contradicting opinions, I read them here pretty much non-stop. I was just really quite shocked to hear the words "Darwin's God" used, and wondered if he actually wrote anything about this in the original book.
Thanks for the info, the Google Books is pretty amazing, I had no idea it even existed. And no, I am not lazy, just work two jobs and go to university, have enough books to read as it is, but thanks for the assumptions, love those.
8 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The word god appears once toward the end of Chapter five.
You can do text searches here: http://www.online-literature.com/darwin/originofsp...
- ?Lv 44 years ago
Darwin's e book is a splash screwey, and God has so plenty greater to assert than what's been written interior the Bible. even nevertheless, from the two books we get some thought approximately advent and approximately God. what's it you pick to rumble approximately? all of us understand, by technological understanding, that species do adapt. there is not any longer something new approximately that. We additionally understand, from the Bible, there could be gaps interior the generations indexed. So, what? there is a few "reason" which created our international and people and that i characteristic that to God. some do no longer. no remember if this advent has been here 10,000 years or a hundred,000,000 years rather does not make a distinction. God created this international and we see that that's organic and organic and of many distinctive aspects. If God created us to artwork in a organic and organic and significant international then he additionally created us to enhance and adapt interior of that international. i do no longer probably see what the great argument is, besides. it is slightly infantile, do no longer you think of? i think of a super type of the concern is by using concern and individuals no longer understanding each and all the solutions. even nevertheless, that doesn't end God from being God and us from being people. i think of we are able to learn plenty from technological understanding, too. once you look interior a microscope or the wonders interior of this universe we learn and see how complicated and stunning each and everything is. it fairly is fairly a astonishing God and we are carefully and fantastically made.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think around 23 references to God; Creator; The Creation; the Creator of the Universe, in various iterations.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Like the U.S. Constitution, Darwin makes zero references to God in "On the Origin of Species".
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- ?Lv 41 decade ago
I'm pretty sure what they meant by "Darwin's God" was what he believed made the universe how it is, not like an actual deity.
- HolyTurtleOfDoomLv 51 decade ago
I don't even remember any references to god, I was to busy focusing on, you know, BIOLOGY.
The modern version of evolution was started by Darwin, just edited as we learn more.
- 1 decade ago
Three. Actually it is quite easy. It took about 5 seconds.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
"I would read it to find out, but it is quite lengthy."
And you're too lazy.
God is imaginary.
Oh, and there are only three mentions of 'god' from title to last word in Oigin of Species.
You're welcome.
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