Charles Darwin, Theologian: Major New Article on Darwin's Use of Theology in the Origin of Species

When the Discovery fellows get together -- at their secret volcano lair, of course -- they sometimes joke that a clever constitutional lawyer could probably succeed in having Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) banned by a federal judge. The book should be kept out of public school science classrooms because of its considerable theological content. No one should be talking about God in a science classroom.

Of course, this is a joke, or is meant to be. Whatever one thinks of its...