Darwin was not starting from a blank page when he developed his theory of evolution.
He was a pastoral botanist, educated for the Anglican ministry and trained in botany under the Reverend John Stevens Henslow. In the early days of biology, theology and the study of nature were not the disconnected disciplines we often imagine today.
Now look at Genesis 1.
The Greek word is genos, translated as species in the Latin Bible and commonly as “kind” in English.
And here is the interesting part:
“All animals were created after their kind.”
Not kinds.
Their is plural. Kind is singular.
Plural living things, after a singular kind.
Even the Latin species is singular, a word that existed long before modern biology adopted it as a scientific classification.
So the biblical picture was not necessarily that every individual species appeared independently, from nowhere. There was already a concept of living things coming from an original “kind.”
Many people read the English translation through the lens of what they were taught in Sunday school, as though Genesis describes every individual species appearing independently, almost like magic. But that is not necessarily what the underlying Hebrew, Greek and Latin texts present.
And these were the Scriptures being read by the very Christian scholars who helped build the foundations of modern biology, many of them pastoral botanists like Darwin.
Darwin carried this biblical and botanical knowledge with him aboard HMS Beagle. His journey, including his observations in the Galápagos, became part of his pursuit of the patterns and laws governing living things.
He already had a biblical conceptual framework.
He went looking into nature.
And what he eventually formulated was the law of evolution.
This is why, at the time of his scientific discovery, Darwin could still regard God as the ultimate Lawgiver and First Cause.
He wrote that he was compelled to look to “a First Cause having an intelligent mind”, and said:
“I deserve to be called a Theist.”
Darwin later struggled with his faith, particularly as religious Christians pushed back against his discoveries. But that later struggle should not be projected backwards onto the time of his scientific work.
At the time, his biblical knowledge was not something he had simply discarded. It was part of the intellectual framework with which he approached the natural world.
The Bible gave him the pattern.
Nature gave him the evidence.
And Darwin formulated the law.
@ChrisBarre49956@WikiLeakHq Not at the current rate of losses.
Russia lost 46,230 men in Sep 2026
Ukraine 5000.
That’s a 10:1 ratio.
At this rate, by the time Russia is down to its last man, Putin himself,
There would be 10 Ukrainians lining up to drag him out of his bunker, Saddam Hussein-style.
@Nanuq072@yasminalombaert 🙄 that’s your take?
Who is more likely to lock people up in detention centers?
Use the military on civilians?
Use they vs us?
By your very logic we see where your “f***ing stupid” pretentious accusations emanate from.
In this powerful monologue, Joe Scarborough proves that Trump and his cronies acting as cheerleaders for putin are no different from the Nazi sympathisers of the 1930s. It’s a chilling, crystal-clear wake-up call about what happens when leaders trade American democracy for a dictator's favour.
Joe Scarborough:
“… just peeling what putin has had a collection of useful idiots across America do now for the past five years.
I really I really don't say this often in American politics. but when you're defending vladimir putin, an ex KGB agent who is committing war crimes by the day, I'm not sure how you sleep at night.
And this phenomenon though, has historical parallels. It was 89 years ago this month in October 1937, that the former king of England walked up the steps of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria. The Duke of Windsor had given up the throne less than a year earlier, but he toured German factories, inspected the SS and was photographed greeting the Führer. Time Magazine reported that Hitler gave the Duke a Nazi salute as they parted and Edward returned that Nazi salute. Later he told friends that Britain shouldn't fight Hitler, the war should not start. Winston Churchill had to actually send him to the Bahamas to keep him away from his new friend in Berlin. But the Duke wasn't alone, just like Donald Trump isn't alone. Here at home, Charles Lindbergh, an American hero who accepted the medal of freedom from Hermann Goering in 1938, went on to lead America First. And in a 1941 speech in Des Moines, he blamed Jews and the British for pushing America toward war. Even FDR's US Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, predicted democracy is finished in England. His appeasement and his lack of moral alarm cost Kennedy his job. In Britain, aristocrats like the Astors and Lord Halifax thought Hitler was a man they could do business with.
Does that sound familiar?
Sounded so respectable, trade, stability, money, peace in our time.
History remembers them now as morally vacuous opportunists who looked at a tyrant who was devouring his neighbours, the only thing they saw, a business partner.
The parallels with Trump are too on point. Now on Friday, Donald Trump got on the phone with vladimir putin who always plays him when they get on the phone and what happened? He lifted sanctions on the Russian diesel deal, he did it three weeks after Republicans had forced him to sign a Russia sanctions bill in honour of Lindsey Graham. The White House says his gift to putin will lower prices at the pump, but it won't. The first shipment is only about 2.2 million barrels and America burns through more than that every day. It's not going to lower gas prices in America. But it will help putin kill innocence in Ukraine, a country Trump has always hated. Trump's four billion dollar gift to the man he kowtows to every day will buy missiles, drones, and glide bombs that will keep terrorising and killing Ukrainians who are fighting for their country's freedom and their children's lives and yes, our freedom.
A bipartisan group of senators including Susan Collins wrote in a statement Sunday that the United States should not provide putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. But Trump's aping of putin’s talking points, they just keep getting worse. With this weak president attacking Ukrainian freedom fighters and perversely calling for new leadership in Kyiv. We do need new leadership, Mr. President, but not in Ukraine. Donald, I've known you a long time and I know you don't read history, so let me tell you how this story ends. The Duke of Windsor ended up a footnote, a cautionary tale in a fancy suit forever assigned to the dustbin of British history. And your time to finally do the right thing in Ukraine, Mr. President, it's running out. Stop bowing down to putin. And start doing your job.
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Matthew 5:22 is about your deep seated anger and resentment against our brothers in Ukraine.
You hate them for no reason and would rather see your buddy Putin wipe them out that defend them.
Your judgment , according to God is coming today if you don’t repent of your hate for this people.
You are Hamas- the murderous side
Jesus called anyone who discriminates (hate without cause) a murderer-
The policy you choose and amplify - one of discrimination against Ukrainians renders you a murderer before God.
Your very intentions (blood list) are judged before God.
You are not innocent in God’s court.
Repent - love your Neighbour as yourself.
@VanEmmerickKris Shit up !
Your blood 🩸 lust for innocent children is showing.
Here, defending Putin- the Hitler of this century who murders and invades .
You are complicit to murder- the earth will give you back all you have sown with interest.
Sick propagandist.
@YardiRoach@BaconingT@SenThomTillis God punishes the wicked who rush to shed innocent blood. 🩸
You are complicit to murder -
And as such will reap what you sow !
Well your attachment shows white British make up only 20% of top percentile earners…. Indians 20%. Chinese 28, s few others at close to 20, and even blacks at 8%…
So most people enjoying the benefits of taxes are as always - low income UK white citizens… as it should be !
No complains ..
But Google is acurate 2.5% of the population - Indians contribute 6.5% of GDP.
The richest people in the Ul - Sanjay and Dheeraj Hinduja and family – £38 billion (Hinduja Group – oil, gas, banking, transport)
You are lucky you received a wage, many of your ancient ancestors were slaves …start working for free and use the money you have received in the past for further bills.
Ukraine has spent past money on defending the nation against one the strongest armies in the world 5 years ago….
You have a head- use it to think
@amongiello@Shelby_Wilder@Biz_Ukraine_Mag Well when you and your family come under attack- remember what you wished on a whole nation…
We reap what we sow in life- your emotions are complicit to murder and exploitation- you attract the same judgement on your home.
@xxBWARExx@euronews@ZelenskyyUa Why don’t you stop working ?
You’ve been earning money for decades….why isn’t it enough to pay all the bills for the rest of your life?
@NewsNation Zelensky has become the voice and leader of the free world.
Nobody stands up to Trump.
He will be remembered for his service while “butt kissers for pay” would be long forgotten