Agnosticism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Charles Darwin==== [[File:Charles Darwin seated crop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Charles Darwin]] in 1854]] Raised in a religious environment, [[Charles Darwin]] (1809β1882) studied to be an [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] clergyman. While eventually doubting parts of his faith, Darwin continued to help in church affairs, even while avoiding church attendance. Darwin stated that it would be "absurd to doubt that a man might be an ardent theist and an evolutionist".<ref name=Fordyce>[http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-12041 Letter 12041] β Darwin, C. R. to Fordyce, John, May 7, 1879. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140618112333/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-12041 Archived] from the original on June 29, 2014.</ref><ref name=spencer>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/17/darwin-evolution-religion Darwin's Complex loss of Faith] ''[[The Guardian]]'' September 17, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141006221012/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/17/darwin-evolution-religion Archived] from the original on June 29, 2014</ref> Although reticent about his religious views, in 1879 he wrote that "I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. β I think that generally ... an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind."<ref name=Fordyce/><ref name=Belief>{{cite web|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/content/view/130/125/|title=Darwin Correspondence Project β Belief: historical essay|access-date=November 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225124103/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/content/view/130/125/ |archive-date=February 25, 2009 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page