“I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the [New Testament] text seems to show that the men who do not believe, & this would include my Father, Brother & almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.” -Charles Darwin, autobiography "[My] judgment often fluctuates…. Whether a man deserves to be called a theist depends on the definition of the term … In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. — I think that generally (and more and more so as I grow older), but not always, — that an agnostic would be the most correct description of my state of mind." -Charles Darwin, in correspondence with John Fordyce At best, his early aims were to "help align scripture" the so-called science of his day, as if it needed his pompous ass for such assistance. What he instead did was draw faulty conclusions from observations made earlier and better - that being of a species improving and adding genetic information which results in change, rather than understanding the species loses genetic information as time continues and results in extinction setting end-marks of subsets within larger groups - as opposed to his mistaken assumption of the emergence of new subsets and groups.