On Jan. 29, 1839, in the little chapel in the English village of
Maer, a religious, 30-year-old woman named Emma Wedgwood put on
a green silk dress and got married. She believed firmly in a
heaven and a hell. And she believed you had to accept God to go
to heaven. She married Charles Darwin. As we head into a new era
for a country that has struggled for too long with the marriage
of science and religion, we should take a look at the marriage
of Charles and Emma Darwin. When Charles came home in 1836 from
his five-year voyage around the world, which included the visit
to the Galapagos Islands, he was already seeing life and
creation in a new way. And as he courted Emma, he also was
secretly scribbling notes about a new idea, his theory of
evolution, in leather-bound notebooks marked "private." He knew
that his view of creation would rock the faith of Emma and
almost everyone in England, and as he prepared to propose to
her, he agonized. Charles' father advised him to keep his mouth
shut. "Conceal your doubts,"