Page "Religious views of Charles Darwin" Paragraph 35

In his autobiography written in 1876 Darwin reviewed questions about Christianity in relation to other religions and how " the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become ".

Though " very unwilling to give up my belief ", he found that " disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete.

The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

" He noted how " The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly seemed to me so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered ", and how Paley's teleological argument had difficulties with the problem of evil.