If the Foundations be Destroyed... - Was Darwin "Founded"? - David Rives

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I wonder if there's some truth to the statement that Darwin was plagued with self doubt about his theories around the close of his life

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"and with her relatives (her grandfather was Josiah Wedgwood of Wedgwood pottery fame); (2) Darwin undoubtedly recognized, even before The Origin was first published (on November 24, 1859), the impact that the book would have, and wanted to “soften the blow” by tossing in, here and there, a reference to a “Creator.”"

- 'The Origin Of Species and Darwin's Reference to "the Creator"', Bert Thompson, Ph.D., Apologetics Press

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"When one goes to the trouble to investigate all of Darwin’s life and works, and not just his ending comment in The Origin, it becomes evident that the references to a “Creator” were nothing but a sop added for two distinct reasons: (1) while Darwin’s family was not at all religious, his wife (the former Emma Wedgwood) was extremely so; references to a “Creator” apparently represented an ill-fated attempt to “keep peace” in his own home,"

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