Yesterday evening, I was in my local B&N bookstore and picked up "On The Origin Of Species" by Charles Darwin and David Quammen. I flipped to what was supposed to be the last sentence of the original "The Origin Of Species" by Darwin, and it read:
" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
The ORIGINAL from "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" sixth edition by Charles Darwin p.429 as found on scholar.google.com reads:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
Why? Why did the book I held in my hand not want to indicate that Darwin believed that there was a creator to the universe? Unless there is a later edition where Darwin himself struck that bit about the creator, I really am concerned. Don't play with history! It is what it is, even if it is uncomfortable.
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