Darwin on a Godless Creation: "It's like confessing to a murder"

It is his beloved Emma writing that, PS. But I agree it's thought provoking she never threatens to break up with him or include any kind of concern about how society will perceive them for his heresy. She marries him, knowing he is faithless, and her main concern is that he will forefit salvation, and they will thus be separated in the afterlife.

This was a time where most modern scientific paradigms were forged - the abstract lines connecting the thoughts of leading intellectuals spans the Atlantic, cross each other and become tangled in this era. I figure a lot of people still had faith as in absolute conviction about irrational beliefs. These days believers are post-Darwin deniers, stubbornly claiming to have faith, making them more hostile, less tolerant, as they are merely fighting for an ideology or moral paradigm.

I seriously doubt that more than a very small fraction of believers actually accept the metaphysical implications of the Bible (heaven, hell, sanctification, judgement, salvation, etc). Their behaviour, their attitudes and their entire lifestyle contradict such confession.

If they really believed most people were doomed to eternal punishment for their unbelief, and they possessed in their heart some kind of divine loving spirit, they'd be heartbroken so many souls are to be lost, not aggressively fighting for "their rights" or some abstract and fairly far fetched super-truth above all facts.

What we witness is mere political behaviour merely for the survival of a cult, culture or organization, which is something well described in anthropology and sociology, posing no mystery to reason or science.

No, find us a true believer in the atomic age, not just people with a superstitious streak and a serious biblio-addiction or an ideological crackpot. That would be a miracle in itself.