DESIGNED LAWS ACCORDING TO DARWIN

What Charles Darwin Said About the Creator and Designed Laws

Charles Darwin himself conceded in The Origin of Species:

“all existing terrestrial life must have descended from some primitive life form that was called into life “by the Creator”!”  Charles Darwin The Origin of Species, 1900, p. 316.

 Darwin called the peacock the most splendid of living birds. The eye on the tail of the peacock is a thing of awesome beauty, with an intensely blue center surrounded by iridescent concentric colored circles. It is enjoyed as the peacock raises and displays his plumage, and seems to have no purpose but to please the observer.

Darwin writes: “That these ornaments should have been formed through the selection of many successive variations, not one of which was originally intended to produce the ball-and-socket effect, seems as incredible as that one of Raphael’s Madonnas should have been formed by the selection of chance daubs of paint made by a long succession of artists, not one of whom intended at first to draw the human figure.”

Darwin said:“To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.”

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : Charles Darwin, In an 1860 (post ‘Origin of Species’) letter to Asa Gray,
Darwin writes:“I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.”

Darwin to Asa Gray, [a minister] May 22, 1860.

In 1885, the Duke of Argyll recounted a conversation he had had with Charles Darwin the year before Darwin’s death:

“In the course of that conversation I said to Mr. Darwin, with reference to some of his own remarkable works on the ‘Fertilisation of Orchids’, and upon ‘The Earthworms’, and various other observations he made of the wonderful contrivances for certain purposes in nature — I said it was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of Mind. I shall never forget Mr. Darwin’s answer.                                                                                                                                He looked at me very hard and said, “Well, that often comes over me with overwhelming force; but at other times,” and he shook his head vaguely, adding, “it seems to go away.””  Duke of Argyll, Good Words, April 1885, p. 244.

Thomas Huxley, often known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his strong advocacy of Darwin’s theory of evolution, was an English biologist. He wrote:                                                                                       “’Creation,’ in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being. Then, as now, the so-called a priori arguments against Theism and, given a Deity, against the possibility of creative acts, appeared to me to be devoid of reasonable foundation.”           Thomas H. Huxley, L. Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. I, 1903, p. 241.