Darwin is often viewed as the man who pulled so many away from God and salvation with his scientific theory, a theory that runs counter to what we know to be historically true. But Darwin was not the bumbling fool, like so many in the Young Earth Creationist movement will tell you. He was an exceptionally brilliant mind, and had his heart stayed rooted in the scripture as his interest in the natural sciences grew, there is no doubt that he would have gone down as one of the greatest scientists in the history of the world.
Darwin was baptized as an Anglican and, though he went to private schools and even studied medicine at one point, he had taken a very young interest in nature, and that interest never faded. As he began to stray toward secularism, his father sent him to Christ’s College in Cambridge and put him on a path to becoming an Anglican preacher. Eventually, however, his love for nature and his interests in shooting, riding and beetle collecting pulled him from his scriptural studies and lured him back to secular science.
Had Darwin not been compelled to embark on the Voyage of the Beagle with Captain Robert FitzRoy in 1831, or had he gone to sea while keeping his scientific view firmly grounded in the scriptures, particularly in the teachings of Genesis, there is no doubt that he would never have crafted the pseudoscience that we know as Natural Selection and Evolution.
Furthermore, had Darwin not gotten spiritually and morally lost, there is little doubt that the beauty and wonder of creation that he saw in the Galapagos Islands and on the mainland in South America would have eventually led him to come up with the scientific theory of Intelligent Design. And, he would have done it more than a century before the great Percival William Davis did.
Every private and public school science class should make Of Pandas and People (co-authored by Percival Davis) required reading. This single book will clearly show you the clues that Darwin missed and why he got things so wrong.
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