If I remember correctly, he highly praised Darwin’s theory of descent with modification because it helped strengthen his faith in an intelligent creator that could set up a system that would run and police itself using set rules.
Basically a self improving computer program.
Most of modern science is based upon the scientific discoveries of priests in the middle ages. The priests, believing that the order of God's creation could be discerned by man, studied the world around them with the intent of understanding how it all worked in order to worship the Creator.
Basically a self improving computer program.