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R.I.P. God (23 October 4004 B.C. – 24 November 1859)

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

It was 150 years ago today, in London, England, that the publication of Charles Robert Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection‘ led to the fate of the Creator deity, commonly known as ‘God’.

God, who had seemingly enjoyed an almost universal popularity, with the masses singing his praises in church on Sundays, had always claimed to have created all the species as they were, and then destroyed them with a flood, except for the beasts that Noah took upon the Ark. Darwin showed this wasn’t necessarily so, by describing his observations and findings from his 5 year voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle, backed by evidence from another 20 years research.

In 1859 it had become evident that the Beagle had sunk the Ark, which was lost without a trace. There were no survivors.

Though word was slow to spread, and some still aren’t aware of the deity’s fatality, it has been apparent that the notion of the Almighty Creator has been dead for 150 years.

Upon this day, the 150th anniversary of Jehovah’s passing, our thoughts are with His Holy family.

On the Origin of Species‘ is available to read online at:

‘Yet reason tells me..’

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

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 possible degree. Yet reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a perfect and complex eye to one very imperfect and simple, each grade being useful to its possessor, can be shown to exist; if further, the eye does vary ever so slightly, and the variations be inherited, which is certainly the case; and if any variation or modification in the organ be ever useful to an animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, can hardly be considered real. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself first originated; but I may remark that several facts make me suspect that any sensitive nerve may be rendered sensitive to light, and likewise to those coarser vibrations of the air which produce sound.

Charles Darwin – On The Origin Of Species (1859)

‘I am fully convinced that species are not immutable’

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, I can entertain no doubt, after the most deliberate study and dispassionate judgement of which I am capable, that the view which most naturalists entertain, and which I formerly entertained — namely, that each species has been independently created — is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Charles Darwin – On The Origin Of Species (1859)