An Analysis of The Theory of Evolution and Religion by Charles Darwin

"The Theory of Evolution and Religion" by Charles Darwin is a work that gives the reader his thoughts about his Theory of Evolution. The essay is a persuasive essay reaction in which the author uses the mode of evaluation to promote the Theory of Evolution as an explanation for the species (or beings) we see in the world today. His explanation also attempts to bring religion and the Theory of Evolution closer together.

Through the essay, with the use of persuasive aim, Charles Darwin tries to persuade the reader that the Theory of Evolution is the only reliable explanation for the variety of species that we see in the world today. He also attacks the theory "each species has been independently created". Charles Darwin writes persuasively that: " When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled". With his theory, Charles Darwin persuades the readers, successfully, that all life is related and has descended from a common ancestor: the birds and the bananas, the fishes and the flowers - all related. He also brings his theory and religion closer together. He sees "no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone". Charles Darwin writes about life "having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one", "from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved". He presents his idea that all that we call life, involving the law of gravity, and the Theory of Evolution, etc, are created by one Creator - God.