"~odand Natural Selection: The Darwin- ian Idea of Desian" bv Dov Osvovat. in Journal of the History of ~iolo~~ (Fall 1980), c/o 235 Science Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02 138. Charles Darwin (1809-82), whose theory of evolution shook the founda- tions of religious faith in the West, claimed to believe in God-at least from 1838 to 1859, when he was formulating the theory. But recent biographers dispute him, citing unpublished jottings Darwin that characterize God as...