Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist” Newsweek, November 28, 2005

2. Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist”Newsweek, November 28, 2005 • “He (Darwin) had planned to enter the ministry, but his discoveries on a fateful voyage 170 years ago shook his faith and changed our conception of the origins of life.” (p 50) • “..his life exemplifies the painful journey from moral certainty to existential doubt that is the defining experience of modernity.” (p 53)

3. Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist”Newsweek, November 28, 2005 • Darwin introduced the notion of evolution: that the lineage of living things change, diverge, and go extinct over time, rather than appear suddenly in immutable form as Genesis would have it.” (p 54) • “..he suggested ..an undirected, morally neutral process he called natural selection” (p 55)

4. Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist”Newsweek, November 28, 2005 • “Evolution is driven by the accumulation of many … small changes, culminating in the emergence of an entirely new species.” (p 55) • “There is grandeur in this view of life …from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” (p 58)

8. Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist”Newsweek, November 28, 2005 • “Darwin was troubled by theodicy, the problem of evil: how could a benevolent and omnipotent God permit so much suffering in the world he created?” (p 56)

9. Excerpts from “Evolution of a Scientist”Newsweek, November 28, 2005 • Darwin’s greater and more radical achievement was to suggest a plausible mechanism for evolution. To a world taught to see the hand of God in every part of Nature, he suggested a different creative force altogether, an undirected, morally neutral process he called natural selection” (p 55)