See here for Nathan Alexander’s article on the agnostic/atheist divide being rooted more in Victorian respectability politics than in any substantial philosophical differences. I think this is relevant to the account read above wherein Darwin agrees with atheism but prefers to call himself an agnostic.
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The "damnable doctrine" of Christianity: a reading from Darwin's autobiography
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