Questioning Darwin - new HBO doc

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Darwin might not have intended his theory to be anti-religion but it definitely is

He very probably didn't intend it as he was still very much an Anglican as a young man (after all, he once studied to become a theologian), but, after he had invented it, it did have that effect on him. There are letters in which he bemoans the conflicts he has with his dear wife (who helped him in his work) about the religious implications of the theory.

Any scientific theory ultimate makes up an integral part of an inescapably antireligious whole, although if viewed narrowly, some might, with the aid of only a moderate degree of intellectual dissonance, not appear quite obviously so on the surface.