• Charles Darwin,  Existence of God

    Darwin’s Unconviction

    Charles Darwin once said: “the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God; but whether this is an argument of real value, I have never been able to decide” (full transcript here). It strikes me that if such a clever fellow such as Darwin cannot decide if the most convincing argument for the existence of God is valid, then the rest of us mere average intellects have no chance. It points to a problem of proof and persuasion  Just because there is a logically valid, sound argument for the existence of…