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Those who consider Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution to be enemies of the Christian faith, not only betray their ignorance, but show that they have not read his books nor bothered to understand his thinking. There is nothing better than to read a few paragraphs from his famous works The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man:

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 circling 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. (On the Origin of Species)

To believe that man was aboriginally civilized and then suffered utter degradation in so many regions, is to take a pitiably low view of human nature. It is apparently a truer and more cheerful view that progress has been much more general than retrogression; that man has risen, though by slow and interrupted steps, from a lowly condition to the highest standard as yet attained by him in knowledge, morals and religion. (The Descent of Man)

And in his books Darwin does not hesitate to talk about

“. . .the laws impressed on matter by the Creator. . .” (O of S)

Two more paragraphs from Charles Darwin for us to think about:

The question is of course wholly distinct from that higher one, whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe; and this has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed. (O of S)

And this one:

Many existing superstitions are the remnants of former false religious beliefs. The highest form of religion—the grand idea of God hating sin and loving righteousness—was unknown during primeval times. (O of S)

In some other paragraph of his book, he writes between the lines that fully aware of human behavior in his time—for Darwin rejected and was hurt by slavery, violence and war—he was happier harking back to those ancestors that, hanging freely from trees, enjoyed the gifts of the Creator.