1 00:00:10,564 --> 00:00:15,200  Hallo .My name is Charles Darwin 2 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,000 Unless you have been living in a cave since you were born 3 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:21,170 you would most probably have heard of me 4 00:00:21,370 --> 00:00:28,900 I travelled the world in order to discover the origin of species and I then produced the theory of evolution. 5 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,570 Of course I know you and I know I am speaking to a remarkable man 6 00:00:32,574 --> 00:00:36,500 I have read all your books and as a result I am now an atheist 7 00:00:36,585 --> 00:00:39,800 I beg your pardon;what did you say? 8 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:42,049 I said I have read all your books 9 00:00:42,150 --> 00:00:44,042 I mean the second part 10 00:00:44,242 --> 00:00:46,900 How could you conclude from my writings 11 00:00:46,989 --> 00:00:51,900 what I could not,when the very theory of evolution is my theory? 12 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:53,150 What do you mean? 13 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:55,950 I mean,I have always believed in God 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:02,330 Even when I experienced some doubts,these were not connected with the theory of evolution 15 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,190 Yes,but you wrote after that 16 00:01:04,390 --> 00:01:07,344 I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age’ 17 00:01:07,544 --> 00:01:10,450 This means that you lost your faith in Christianity 18 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:12,048 I saw a letter in which you wrote 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,497 I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe 20 00:01:15,697 --> 00:01:17,022 in the Bible as a divine revelation 21 00:01:17,222 --> 00:01:20,540 and therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God’. 22 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:25,216 Indeed,but what has that got to do with belief in God? 23 00:01:25,416 --> 00:01:28,200 I always believed in a Creator 24 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,200 but I doubted all religions 25 00:01:30,208 --> 00:01:33,500 These are two separate issues 26 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:40,700 To use my doubts in Christianity so as to make conclusions about my faith in God is unacceptable 27 00:01:40,782 --> 00:01:45,890 Do you mean that there is no contradiction between belief in God and the theory of evolution 28 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,300 Certainly To try to set the two as mutually contradictory is absurd. 29 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,600 I said this in my letters 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:59,262 It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man maybe an ardent Theist and an evolutionist 31 00:01:59,462 --> 00:02:01,230 This is strange indeed 32 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:07,240 All evidence we see of evolution and the variety of species lead directly to atheism. 33 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,060 The fact is that I say the exact opposite.I wrote 34 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:18,140 ‘I may say that the impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe 35 00:02:18,340 --> 00:02:21,800 with our conscious selves,arose through chance 36 00:02:21,950 --> 00:02:26,450 seems to me the chief argument for the existence of God’ 37 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:28,600 I also wrote 38 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,900 The strongest argument for the existence of God 39 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:40,100 as it seems to me,is the instinct or intuition which we all (as I suppose)feel that there must 40 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:43,090 have been an intelligent beginner of the Universe 41 00:02:43,150 --> 00:02:49,000 but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy 42 00:02:49,150 --> 00:02:50,950 You see?You see? 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,627 You doubted the justice of such God.You see? 44 00:02:53,827 --> 00:02:57,270 According to the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation 45 00:02:57,350 --> 00:03:01,420 you ‘could not seethe work of an omnipotent deity in all the pain 46 00:03:01,620 --> 00:03:07,150 and suffering such as the ichneumon wasp paralyzing caterpillars as live food for its eggs’ 47 00:03:07,350 --> 00:03:12,350 Yes,but why is this related to the existence of God? 48 00:03:12,450 --> 00:03:17,550 I have experienced doubts because of certain philosophical arguments 49 00:03:17,650 --> 00:03:20,690 such as good and evil in our world 50 00:03:20,890 --> 00:03:23,070 and the relations between species 51 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,300 This is something that has nothing to do with the origin of species 52 00:03:28,450 --> 00:03:30,000 Nor did I invent this. 53 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,450 You mean that your study of evolution did not make you an atheist 54 00:03:34,462 --> 00:03:40,450 In no way.I wrote in 1897,three years before my death 55 00:03:40,550 --> 00:03:46,526 ‘I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.’ 56 00:03:46,726 --> 00:03:50,990 So you were neither a complete believer nor a complete atheist 57 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:52,448 What was your real attitude? 58 00:03:52,648 --> 00:03:56,590 My stand was highly controversial after my death 59 00:03:56,790 --> 00:03:57,820 However 60 00:03:57,950 --> 00:04:03,940 no one can say that I became an atheist as a result of the theory of evolution 61 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,100 I will give you a clue 62 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,350 my favourite book was Natural Theology 63 00:04:10,550 --> 00:04:12,400 I even said 64 00:04:12,550 --> 00:04:16,200 ‘I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more 65 00:04:16,400 --> 00:04:22,540 than Paley’s Natural Theology.I could almost formerly have said it by heart. 66 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:24,840 and What does this book say? 67 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,500 It presents the well-known concept that may be summed up 68 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:33,850 as that natural laws constitute God’s chosen method for running His universe 69 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,700 I will leave you to contemplate this 70 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 see you later.