Darwin worried about the relationship between what he said and the truths of religion, but he could proceed, he could write books about his subject without having to say what the relationship was to the religious claims, and similarly, geologists increasingly could talk about it.
达尔文担心他所说的话 与宗教给人们输入的事实之间的冲突， 但是他还是可以继续进行自己的研究， 他可以写有关他研究内容的书籍， 而不用解释他的研究内容与 宗教教义之间的关系， 同理，地质学家们也在逐渐的谈论他们的发现。