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DARWIN'S START

It was because of the death of his daughter that Charles Darwin couldn't make sense of a loving God. This seemed to put him on his path to finding a way to take God out of the creation story.

(Source: Charles Darwin -The Question he couldn’t answer p. 16, 32,33 Jan-March Answers)

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