Here is an interesting article in Chesterton's own words titled "Why I am a Catholic" published in a collection in 1926. He addresses Darwinism in a paragraph near the end.
http://www.chesterton.org/why-i-am-a-catholic/
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It knows there are many other evolutionary theories besides the Darwinian theory; and that the latter is quite likely to be eliminated by later science. It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To conclude is to shut up; and the man of science is not at all likely to shut up.
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This article addresses Chesterton's conversion.
http://www.chesterton.org/lecture-49/
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Every era tries to create a new religion, something more befitting the age, but new religions are only suited to what is new. And what is new is soon old. Chesterton argues that the Catholic Church has all the freshness of a new religion, but it also has the richness of an old religion. It does not change with people’s tastes. It is a religion that binds men to their morality even when they are not in the mood to be moral. The Church often has to go against the grain of the world.
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