That could be, but it's hard to say in his time. I do know that there were many arguments brought up years later that he was falsifying evidence because he wouldn't agree with evolution because he was a monk. However, the timeline says otherwise. It's very unlikely that he knew anything about Darwin.
There were many scientists, especially at that time, who were religious. In fact some of them were some of the more famous scientists in history.
Thanks for the curation!
Do you have any information about VYB that I can read about?
It makes sense that religious people should pursue careers in academia. The Bible does challenge believers to study the natural world.
My pleasure :) VYB is a curation project founded by @calumam - all curators still hold both vyb and pob delegations, but the rest of it is currently on hold, as he is currently offline.