Charles Darwin on Religion and Science
Charles Darwin was always thrilled by the natural environment around him. His love for nature led to his scientific exploits as seen with the natural theory of evolution and the theory of natural selection. He saw science as a key to understanding natural occurrences. His perception of science was seen from the way he handled religious issues like morality and ethics. He was ethical in his expressions of nature and science. The diversity of animals and plants gave him an empirical perception of nature. He saw breakthroughs affixed in science. To him, science was a way of knowing life, understanding nature, and even transforming it in the way it was. In his arguments, he pointed out the concept of morphological relationship between man and monkeys as it can be seen in their hands and body structure. This showed how science played a bigger role in the origin of life than the ‘mere’ religious creation stories. …show more content…
He viewed religion as requiring a wide and critical mind. As much as he wanted to bring together a bridge between science and religion, he saw these two elements playing different roles. He refused to participate in any meeting seeking to unify science and religion. With respect to religion, he said that science had nothing to do with Christ. Moreover, he stood down his commitment to being a Christian as he said that he did not believe in the Bible, for which he was sorry. He was against spiritualism as well as publication. He did not give up Christianity until he was forty, citing that he gave it up because it was not supported by evidence like science. On science “…he stirred with his work in astronomy, the story of Darwin’s life and work in the natural sciences is surprising, controversial, dramatic, and too important to ignore” (Choi 165). Work Cited
Choi, Ki Joo. Introduction to Charles Darwin (a.d. 1809–1882). In The Turn to Modernity: Science and Religion, pp.
Charles Darwin was always thrilled by the natural environment around him. His love for nature led to his scientific exploits as seen with the natural theory of evolution and the theory of natural selection. He saw science as a key to understanding natural occurrences. His perception of science was seen from the way he handled religious issues like morality and ethics. He was ethical in his expressions of nature and science. The diversity of animals and plants gave him an empirical perception of nature. He saw breakthroughs affixed in science. To him, science was a way of knowing life, understanding nature, and even transforming it in the way it was. In his arguments, he pointed out the concept of morphological relationship between man and monkeys as it can be seen in their hands and body structure. This showed how science played a bigger role in the origin of life than the ‘mere’ religious creation stories. …show more content…
He viewed religion as requiring a wide and critical mind. As much as he wanted to bring together a bridge between science and religion, he saw these two elements playing different roles. He refused to participate in any meeting seeking to unify science and religion. With respect to religion, he said that science had nothing to do with Christ. Moreover, he stood down his commitment to being a Christian as he said that he did not believe in the Bible, for which he was sorry. He was against spiritualism as well as publication. He did not give up Christianity until he was forty, citing that he gave it up because it was not supported by evidence like science. On science “…he stirred with his work in astronomy, the story of Darwin’s life and work in the natural sciences is surprising, controversial, dramatic, and too important to ignore” (Choi 165). Work Cited
Choi, Ki Joo. Introduction to Charles Darwin (a.d. 1809–1882). In The Turn to Modernity: Science and Religion, pp.