‘The strongest argument for the existence of God, as it seems to me, is the instinct or intuition which we all (as I suppose) feel that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the Universe. But then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy.’

And then there was God[Charles Darwin]

[On 11 March 1878, Charles Darwin wrote a very brave – for the time – letter to his colleague James Grant. However convinced he was of his theory that life on Earth had evolved, he was clearly less certain about how it all began. With that, he touched on the theme that still divides the world so fanatically into ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’.]