"In an era when natural philosophers were consciously coming to rely on idioms of
* prediction,
* experiment,
* demonstration,
* and discovery,
when accredited truths of nature were established by seeing and believing,
Darwin’s approach was doubly unusual.
He was inviting people to believe in a world run by irregular,
unpredictable contingencies,
as well as asking them to accept his solution for the simple reason that it seemed to work."
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, p. 56
Job 38:2
