Romans 1:22 NLT
"Charles Darwin’s metaphorical thinking is sometimes subject to a tension between nature as destroyer and nature as nurturer.
"Charles Darwin’s metaphorical thinking is sometimes subject to a tension between nature as destroyer and nature as nurturer.
Hard questions from one or more friends, and from reviewers of the
book, led him to consider replacing talk of “natural selection” with the term “natural preservation,” so as to avoid errant associations with choice and, by extension, teleology.
But Darwin seems to have sensed that such acquiescence would have been fatal to his idea of major morphological change. After all, his book was about the origin of new species, not their preservation having once arrived.
Darwin needed the term “natural selection” to modify the reader’s conception of nature’s role — not an exterminator or even a mere embalmer of the status quo but a nurturing facilitator."
Neil Thomas, False Messiah: Darwinism as the God That Failed