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medical studies. He was an amateur researcher afflicted by many
undiagnosed illnesses who was taciturn and avoided arguments,
whose mind was full of doubts, who had difficulty in thinking
logically, who was solitary and lived in a confused spiritual world. In
an emotional reaction to the death of his young daughter, he became
rebellious against God and religion. It was in this unhealthy spiritual
state that he proposed his thesis that would later become known as the
"foundation of atheism."
Darwin first preached the fundamentals of the theory in detailed
form to important scientists in his circle through conversations, articles
and personal letters. What Darwin left unfinished or insufficiently
elaborated was completed by his followers, who subsequently
continued to expound the theory.
Darwin's The Origin of Species, which is revered as if it were a
holy book, is actually full of impasses and contradictions and is based
on an inconsistent logic relying on mere probabilities and guesses.
Darwin himself regarded his book not so much as a scientific work but
as "a long argument." Darwin acknowledged the weaknesses, incon-
sistencies, impasses and difficulties of his theory in his writings and in
letters to friends. In one letter he confessed
that there were serious flaws in the theory
which had brought him to the point of
suicide:
You ask about my book, and all that I can
say is that I am ready to commit suicide; I
thought it was decently written but find so
much wants rewriting... 40
In another letter, he said:
Pray do not think that I am so blind as not to
see that there are numerous immense
difficulties in my notions. 41
Particularly in letters to his friend, Charles

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