A1283    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2011. Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? The public domain review (28 July).   Text   PDF

that time that it has very gradually with many fluctuations become weaker. At other times he used the term 'agnostic' - a word coined and made fashionable by the naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley. In an 1879 letter, written around the same time as the autobiography and first published in Life and Letters (1887), he writes: 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 as I grow older), but not