That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

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Charles Darwin said that the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. He did not believe in random chance. Therefore, he did not believe in the idea of God creating the universe with a plan.

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