Darwin issues to explore Darwin was born into a wealthy and well to do family. He never met his grandfather, who died before he was born. He did, however, become familiar with his grandfather’s beliefs and ideas through reading his writings. His grandfather had a naturalistic view of origins and even promoted basic evolutionary ideas. His father had forsaken the atheist leanings of grandfather Erasmus and raised Darwin under formal Christian education with exposure to the Scriptures and Christian beliefs [by his father and mother, and later his wife]. But Darwin, a boy who liked bugs, somehow obtained access to his grandfathers writings and this plus the worldly views going on in his youth, lead him off the path of truth and onto the path of his man-centered idolatry. He came from a wealthy family, and his father thought he wouldn't become much [he like shooting, dogs and bugs], so when Darwin was encouraged to become a pastor, he took it because the position had a s...