/lit/ - Literature

>>18182842
>Perhaps the most influential writer in regards to shifting western civilization
he isn't, I don't know how you can claim that his discoveries have impacted how we organise our societies, we're just a continuation of the bullshit egalitarianism populated by pseud frenchmen during the enlightenment, Darwin's discovery directly opposes the current norm of our society (except in how jews function, they know how to take care of themselves)
>yet the most misunderstood and misinterpreted due to popular science, quotes of other individuals but attached to his name, and religious nuts.
true, Darwin was not an atheist and he did not seek to surplant God with evolution in any way, God is mentioned numerous times during On The Origin of Species as working through evolution to shape creation, it could be seen as deist but in a way i think it reminiscent of Spinoza's (pbuh) Natura Naturans. However, though Darwin maintained belief in God all his life, he was not a christian by the end of it (as he felt that the barbarity of the natural world precluded God from being benevolent in the way of a human personality, again more similar to deism or panentheism). He explicitly stated that abiogenesis was not a part of his theory and that a creator is still required, even in the final paragraph of his opus he reiterated that.
I do think that natural selection conflicts with christianity, but not with genesis, I do not see how people who already take genesis as somewhat analogical (unless you actually think that the firmament is a physical thing and the universe looks like pic related) can't understand "God created the [insert animal group here]" as having been done through evolution, why wouldn't God sculpt an obviously changing universe with the laws he gave for that universe. I think the conflict between natural selection and Christianity is in Christianity's egalitarian attitudes and praise of the meek et al though perhaps this isn't a conflict either and the two truly are compatible, i'd be interested if any actual christians might be able to make the two compatible in this way, maybe if egalitarianism applies to the soul not the material?

I would also say that On The Origin is quite a beautifully written book, it truly comes across as having been written by a man with a true connection to the beauty and love of creation.

Additionally, fuck you OP, I know you only posted this to start a flamewar between retarded atheists who don't understand evolution through laziness and retarded mutt creationists who wilfully misunderstand it. I hope my post can bring a semblance of actual discussion.

Waters above, Waters below

Is Plato's cosmology similar to this or is it completely different?