Charles Darwin Quote

There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice.


Letter to Asa Gray, 22 May 1860


There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the...

There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the...

There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the...

There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent & omnipotent God would have designedly created the...