Darwin on Chance and Design

My theology is a simple muddle, I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent  design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details. As for each variation that has ever occurred  having been preordained for a special end. I can no more believe in it than that the spot on which each drop of rain falls has been specially ordained. (pp. 19-18)


Source:
Darwin's Letter of 12 July  1879 to J. D. Hooker, in Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin, F. Darwin and A. C. Seward. New York: Appleton, 1903), I:321. 
As quoted in pages 19-18 in Życiński, Józef. God and Evolution: Fundamental Questions of Christian Evolutionism. Translated by Kenneth W. Kemp and Zuzanna Maślanka. Washington: The Catholic University of America, 2006 [BL263.Z9313 2006] (Tyndale Seminary, Toronto)

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