Charles Darwin, an English biologist mostly known for his Origin of Species work, published his main work at the age of 50 (long overdue). As his father was a wealthy physician, Charles had worked as an expedition naturalist without pay. Big controversy continues to this day, although the notion of evolutionary change is now firmly established as a major paradigm of the natural sciences. He described himself not as an atheist, but an agnostic believing in some kind of personal God, who does not directly and continuously intervene in the evolutionary process and in human affairs.
"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom and who gains understanding", was his eulogy.
"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom and who gains understanding", was his eulogy.
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