[Hac-announce] Correspondence with a Relative

[Thomas Platt]

Hi _____,

I have to say I found this cartoon to be an objectionable  
distortion.  It would be potent grist for an antidefamation league  
that doesn't exist, not only for secular humanists, but for many  
others who feel strongly about science and science education.  No  
doubt I started this with my self-deprecating hymn/bullfrog  
comments.  Thanks for calling it to my attention.

As for Charles Darwin's personal beliefs, perhaps this very short  
quotation in his own words from "Religious Belief By Charles  
Darwin",  an extract from "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin" at
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/cd_relig.htm will do for the  
present on a complicated subject:

"I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems.  
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I  
for one must be content to remain an Agnostic."

	Love, Tom


On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:34 PM, _______ wrote:

Hi Tom,

We thought you might not see The Register.  This could be for you.   
However--if I recall properly--although Darwin’s research stirred up  
a storm, he himself continued to believe in God.

Love,
_______
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