I am just doing what I have to do every week by explaining this for the 1000th time. The Lady Hope Myth states that on his death bed, Darwin suddenly became a god-fearing christian. Since people still promote this nonsensical myth every day on this website, allow me to retort:
Henrietta Litchfield (Darwin's daughter) stated in The Christian for February 23, 1922 in an article titled: Charles Darwin’s Death-Bed: Story of Conversion Denied by Mrs. R.B. Litchfield:
"I was present at his deathbed, Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. ... ...The whole story has no foundation whatever."
2006-07-17
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