It didn't happen!
2006-07-18 04:35:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
snopes.com
2006-07-18 04:40:24 · update #1
I once posted a question about this.
The truth is that some people don't understand the fundamental distinction between religion and science. Christianity is nothing without Jesus and Islam doesn't exist without Muhammad. Religions live and die by their founders. Many creationists don't perceive that that's not the case with science - DNA doesn't randomly mutate because Darwin said it did. Darwin, as a true scientist, would freely admit that he as a person is irrelevant to the forces of nature that create evolution.
Creationists, not understanding that, engage in the classic 'ad hominem' tactic of attacking individuals in the hope that discrediting them will discredit their theories. Even if Darwin happened to be a slave-owning, child-molesting, baby-seal-bashing psychopath (which he wasn't), it means nothing as regards science. It's a philosophical and conceptual divide that ends up only preaching to the converted.
As one person gave in brilliant response to the question that I had asked, if Newton had recanted on his bed, apples would still fall...
2006-07-18 19:51:05 · answer #1 · answered by XYZ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I have mentioned this before to people, but I have not pinned up and points with it.
Whether he recanted or didn't means nothing. People believe what they want to believe. You can insist that there is no gold in china or that all clocks run backwards, or the your a cockroach and only crawl along the woodwork - it does not change reality.
The illogical thing to me about evolution is that it simply can't reflect reality. If you look at a car, do you wonder to yourself "Was their a creator of that car?" If you look at a coke can, do you speculate about how many millions of years it took for it to evolve out of the primordial ooze and how many days it took for the red paint to form the words "12 fl oz - Do not litter"? Of course not! These things are made by a creator as evidenced by their order. A coke can is a an example of a simple thing - not even a machine, how much more complex is a man, a hand, a eye!? It takes more faith to believe that all the incredibly ordered world around us came about by chance than it does to believe that a creator made the world with apparent age so that the man and animals he made would not starve to death the first day.
2006-07-18 04:54:00 · answer #2 · answered by davidvario 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people want to believe that it happened that way. They want to believe that every Atheist recanted on thier deatbed. It didn't happen that way for any of the most famous ones we hear about all the time. Just like the old "No Atheists in a Foxhole", it's the last resort when there's nothing else to say.
Pretty much all urban myths are urban myths because people want to believe they happened. No matter how silly or outlandish they sound, somebody out there wishes to believe they are true.
2006-07-18 04:43:41 · answer #3 · answered by Seraphina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A last ditch effort for those with weak faith to disprove evolution. Instead they should realize all the evidence/answers aren't in yet. Could not evolution factor into the way God created the universe? We are only told what we need to know or can handle at that particular point in time. Many times in history man did not understand but took it on faith that eventually things would be made clear. I'm sure God will send an update sometime soon!
2006-07-18 04:45:57 · answer #4 · answered by philmnt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe in God as a cause of the universe, error in logic the start had natural causes.
This same logic applies to scientists, that the scientist must have been tricked by satan, or became a christian on his deathbed so the theories were somehow wrong,
or einstein was a religious person so i should be one too
the way i understand christian theology is if i believe in my heart that i am saved by grace of jesus's death than i go to heaven
so i am personally doing this, im a believer now that in the death of jesus it takes away my sin
but i dont label myself a christian i label myself an atheist and try and find natual causes to my problems
i pray for things but dont expect any miracles, if god exists and wills it to happen so be it
but heh, thats just me do what you want
2006-07-18 04:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because fundies tell lies. they tell lies about what scientists say, they do rubbish pseudoscience and try and trick normal people to believe their lies.
it is now common knowledge that the Darwin recant was a hoax and has been admitted by the Vatican,
2006-07-18 04:37:55 · answer #6 · answered by gwbruce_2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His daughter says the story was nonsense. That should be good enough for anyone, but Christianity has always excelled at proliferating myths.
2006-07-18 04:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if Darwin recanted on his deathbed or not.
I wasn't there.
Were you?
2006-07-18 04:41:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I have to post the Lady Hope story is a hoax question every day.
2006-07-18 04:37:12 · answer #9 · answered by Lucifer T. Chick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most people who tell you that, genuinely believe it to be true. The person who started this "rumor" probably knew it wasn't true but most people here don't realize it.
It's just ignorance on their side.
I myself don't see what difference it would make anyway.
2006-07-18 04:48:08 · answer #10 · answered by tabs 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋