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Darwin and Darwinism 150 Years Later: Biblical Faith and the Christian Worldview is unavailable, but you can change that!

In 1859, Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. It has affected the worldview of generations since, encouraging them to think that they are the products of an unplanned process and ultimately have no reason for existence. The book has had an incredible effect on western...

Darwin’s account of the voyage. These volumes were published in 1839. During the voyage, Darwin and FitzRoy had more or less shared their opinions of Lyellian uniformitarianism, but also of an opposition to the concept of transmutation (the alteration of one species into another) of the species. Following the voyage, both men’s ideas changed. Darwin produced a second version of his diary notes in 1845 in which he added his ideas about transmutation. He did not make it clear that these thoughts had
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