Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

A century ago, England was the major center of Christianity in the West. For many years, it had been sending out thousands of missionaries carrying the message of Christ to the world. Darwin and Freud changed all that. Dawkins explains, “Any creationist lawyer who got me on the stand could instantly win over the jury simply by asking me: ‘Has your knowledge of evolution influenced you in the direction of becoming an atheist?’ I would have to answer yes.” Dawkins confesses that Darwinism turned him from a fine “Christian” English youth into an atheist. He even says that he might still be a theist had it not been for Darwin: “I lost my faith for good at about the age of 15 or 16. That was because I discovered Darwinism. I recognized that there was no good reason to believe in any kind of supernatural creator. And my final vestige of religious faith disappeared when I finally understood the Darwinian explanation for life.”