In response to the OP, what do we really know about Darwin?
A quick Google search on Charles Darwin reveals some interesting facts.....
"On the Origin of Species reflects theological views. Though he thought of religion as a tribal survival strategy, Darwin still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver, and later recollected that at the time he was convinced of the existence of God as a First Cause and deserved to be called a theist."
So for Darwin, as a believer in God, he saw adaptation and recognised that God was the one governing the laws of nature. That these mechanisms for adaptation were inbuilt in all living things.
"Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce."
Still not arguing against a Creator. I believe that the "others" mentioned here contributed more than Darwin in shaping what we know today as "the theory of evolution".
How did Darwin understand the term "species of organisms"?
"In 1859, Charles Darwin set out his theory of evolution by natural selection as an explanation for adaptation and speciation. He defined natural selection as the "principle by which each slight variation [of a trait], if useful, is preserved"."
"Adaptation and speciation" are natural processes that Darwin observed......his assumption that different birds could interbreed to produce these new varieties was not supported however.
"The ornithologist John Gould soon announced that the Galapagos birds that Darwin had thought a mixture of blackbirds, "gros-beaks" and finches, were, in fact, twelve separate species of finches."
It appears that 'others' took his observations and turned them into the circus we now know as "macro-evolution".......something Darwin did not assume from his observations.
What has actually "evolved" since Darwin's time, is man's excursions into fantasy concerning the simple observations of his time on the Galápagos Islands.
"On The Origin of Species" was originally about an organism's ability to adapt to a new environment, and different food sources, producing different "varieties" within a taxonomic family of creatures. Darwin saw varieties of finches and a marine adapted iguana and a different species of tortoise, much larger than any seen elsewhere.....but he did not see these creatures morphing into something other than what they were recognised as being.
Ever so gradually, speculation is what "evolved" into "speciation" coming to mean all the different "kinds" of creatures all descending from a common ancestor....a single celled organism, that popped into existence spontaneously, with the inbuilt ability to become all the different lifeforms on earth......but without a single shred of actual evidence that this was even possible.
Getting rid of God was apparently something a lot of people wanted to do, and not surprisingly when you see what "the church" insisted was the true story of Genesis....and here we are....both extremes being utterly baseless. Yet no one considers that somewhere in the middle is a more balanced approach. Creation and science are completely compatible. It never was an "either/or" option.
