The Closing of Charles Darwin's Formerly Christian Mind

Richard Weikart has an exceptionally crisp, clear and unsentimental take on the trajectory of Darwin's religious belief over the course of his lifetime. It's up now at the The American Thinker. Excerpt:

So, what lessons can we draw about the relationship between religion and evolutionary theory from Darwin's own trajectory? First, as he developed his evolutionary theory, he moved from Christian belief in a personal God to a deistic position to agnosticism. It is not clear to what extent his...