Comments | blo_thebelt: findings amoung an autobiography.

blo_thebelt

findings amoung an autobiography.

Jan 16, 2006 22:14

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.

And this is a damnable doctrine.

-Charles Darwin

Comments 3

Yeah.... aaronakafidel January 17 2006, 03:25:24 UTC

Well, Darwin never meant to make evolution disprove intelligent design, and on his death bed he said his faithful prayers to the Almighty Christ...just thought you might like...

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Re: Yeah.... blo_thebelt January 17 2006, 04:38:34 UTC

There is a story that Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist and developer of the theories of evolution through natural and sexual selection, recanted his life's work and agnosticism and accepted Christianity on his deathbed. It has been circulating through evangelical publications and broadcasts for many years. The story originated with Lady Hope (a.k.a. Elizabeth Reid Cotton, widow of Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hope), an evangelist in Darwin's neighborhood of Downe, England. She said in a 1915 speech to a Moody evangelical school in East Northfield, Ma., that on his deathbed Darwin had been reading the Epistle to the Hebrews. Supposedly, he wished for singing and worship at his home, regretted that his evolutionary "speculations" were taken so seriously and had caused such evil, and that he accepted the Christian scheme of "salvation." The story was printed in the Boston Watchman Examiner and has been in circulation ever since ( ... )

iterative_steps February 1 2006, 14:56:34 UTC

ewwww and lol at your icon. i saw you in the ucf community