September 18, 2010

Bible Time

Darwins Theory of Evolution??
According to what I read in Science Illustrated [March/April 2010], maybe not.
Blue highlights are mine to show relevance to my opinion.

In a letter to the editor, Richard J. Erdiac, Jr. said:
"Origins of a Revolution in Hardcover" [November/December 2009] was most interesting. In the 1926 authorized edition of The Origin of Species, however, the final sentence actually reads: "There is grandeur in this view of life, with it's several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved." By editing the quote [to remove "by the Creator"], you continue to foster unnecessary debate between science and religion.

The editors replied:
Darwin added "by the Creator" to the books second edition. Modern edits of his first edition, the articles subject, do not include these words, according to science historian Ronald Numbers of the University of Wisconsin.

Since Darwin chose to add "by the Creator" to the second edition, shouldn't we respect his choice? Obviously not, according to the editors comment, modern scientists use the first edition. I suppose it helps with THEIR "THEORY OF EVOLUTION", not to use the second edition. They love to tell us what Darwin wrote and studied, but they don't want us to know what he thought. Darwin believed that we were "originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...".

Something to think about, isn't it?