Absolutely, Darwin was evidence-mad. As I said, Darwin was pretty cagey. I guess the interesting thing (given the Lincoln connection) is that Lincoln's views on God were also pretty agnostic (although it is hard to call them agnostic, Lincoln's God seems to be like some universal force that works out truth in human affairs).   I think this is one of those places where the two men actually touch -- they paid a kind of deep meditative attention to the life of things. Different things, but there was this deep meditative attention that resulted in these extraordinary feelings for the pattern of things.   

yours,

Peter T.