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Nature 422, 813-814 (24 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422813a

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Gould and God

Jerry A. Coyne1

The original 'Devil's chaplain' was Robert Taylor, an apostate priest and self-styled 'infidel missionary' whose rabble-rousing entourage stormed into Cambridge in 1829 — halfway through Charles Darwin's undergraduate career. Taylor's brew of atheism and republicanism held no allure for young Darwin, then a conventional Christian thoroughly steeped in the hierarchical values of nineteenth-century Britain.