The Emptiness - the Religion of Evolution

Darwin towards the end of his days was lost and alone. He didn't love the beauty of Creation. It appeared to him to be a nasty accident of natural selection. From this article:

Darwin's disbelief eventually spread beyond Christianity to include any sort of belief in God. While writing the first edition of The Origin of Species, he claimed that he had probably been a theist because he saw the "impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man ... as the result of blind chance or necessity." But that belief too had gradually eroded. "The old argument of design in nature ... which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered." Moreover, it seemed inconceivable to Darwin that an omnipotent God could sanction the cruelties inherent in nature's struggle for existence--"the sufferings of millions of the lower animals throughout almost endless time." Having demystified the world through natural selection, Darwin was no longer filled with "higher feelings of wonder, admiration, and devotion" when looking at nature. "I well remember my conviction that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any such convictions and feelings to rise in my mind."

Thus Darwin, like so many atheists and liberals ever since, got rid of the troubling apparent contradiction between God and the injustices of life by getting rid of God--and, in so doing, getting rid of wonder in the face of nature, getting rid of admiration at the fact of man. No more could Darwin say, with the psalmist:

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?
and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

No more could Darwin say, with Wordsworth in "Tintern Abbey":

And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth.

It is true that some atheists say they experience a sense of wonder at nature despite their disbelief in any higher truth. But when we remember that it was Darwin's The Origin of Species that made atheism respectable and increasingly dominant in the modern world, Darwin's own growing atheism, and the resulting deadness and coldness in his feelings about life, become paradigmatic of modern materialist man.

This whole thing is a sad sad commentary. I do not celebrate his Birthday. I mourn. I mourn for Darwin. He now knows the truth....too late. I mourn for a world lost in a lie. This must be one of the devil's best schemes ever. Deception is everywhere.