Darwins own words . . . .?

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about his illness:"Age 56-57. - For twenty-five years extreme spasmodic daily & nightly flatulence: occasional vomiting, on two occasions prolonged during months. Vomiting preceded by shivering, hysterical crying, dying sensations or half-faint. & copious and very palid urine. Now vomiting & every passage of flatulence preceded by ringing of ears, treading on air & vision. focus & black dots, air fatigues, specially risky, brings on the Head symptoms[,] nervousness when E[mma]. leaves me..."This was the man that evolutionists are listening to. I am not here to make jokes. I can't imagine for twenty five years going through this . . . .what a horrible life. Darwins illness had never been diagnosed.Heres what he did to try to cure it:Darwin tried desperately many different therapies within the limited armamentarium of medical science of his time. He took all kinds of medicines, including bismuth compounds and laudanum and even tried quack therapies, such as electrical stimulation

quack remedies? Drugs? Electric stimulation? This is in an encyclopedia people. This man had issues. Many of them it seems . . . He was writing all during this time . . . he was publishing books we now today use as fact. Evolution is a theory not fact and written by a troubled soul. Why is Creation so unbelievable?

The question is why is Creationism so unbelievable if you believe someone who was severely ill, seeing things, being electrically stimulated and on drugs?

Evolution is a theory and Creationism is a theory. We have artifacts and archealogical evidence to prove creation not just faith, so why is it so "out there" to believe creation?

Interesting to see how many Evolutionists "crawl" out of the woodwork to call me an idiot. I appreciate Eilika actually answering the question.

God Bless and keep trying Endora you may just get it right one time.

Answer 1

As I read some of the responses I wondered just how many of you went to college. Like thewolfskool for example, maybe you should try reading one of the many educational books that support Creationism. For example, you might be interested to know that certain aspects of evolution are accepted. Few people reject the fact of microevolution, it's easy to see that certain species have evolved to adapt to new places. All we're saying is that God originated the Earth. Personally, after all the evidence I've seen, I support the view that God created everything in 7 days and with age (therefore Adam was not a baby) and allowed things to continue developing.

O, and Endora, your evidence makes no sense. Why would God even consider bringing your creation to life? And I don't mean that disrespectfully, but God doesn't need or want us to create things for Him.

Answer 2

I am wondering if we could believe that the stone together with other metals at the optimum time forms a cell and later through billions of years evolved into something like all that we see today why would it be difficult to believe the story that all things are created. At least, the proof is to find out who is the person responsible to create these. Why, I would speculate in the beginning there was complete darkness: no universe, no nothing. However, some speech was heard let us create something to accompany us. As a result, angels were created then the universe and then the galaxies in the universe and then some galaxy like the earth, moon and sun. Well, before the moon and the sun, the earth was created with dinausaurs big and small and all kind of weird vegetations. Maybe there were some creatures like humans crawling or standing like monkeys or peking men. The angel that was put in charge became rebellious. He was demoted and all dinausaurs destroyed and the earth became kiotic. Now read the bible, let say it derived the stories from many other records or sources. It is a miracle all these information or materials were put together into one book so that it is easy for us to read and interpret. So follow the creation story. Maybe I will add, many eves were created like the first eve from the rib of Adam. Well until the number is sufficient, the humans are then being produced through conception or man made vombs if possible in future. Have you ever wondered who was responsible to teach them how to mate to produce off springs. So I would say, creation stories will be much more easy to tell that the evolution with too many technical terms or biological expressions. For God says, it is and there it is. Don't you think so?

Answer 3

How does this do anything against evolution theory? So the man who developed the initial theory was ill for a large portion of his life.

The fact is that people have gone on from this initial theory and built upon it, continuously improving on it and picking out the parts that don't fit the theory model.

To discredit evolution theory based on it's author, you'd have to discredit roughly 80% of the scientific community.

Answer 4

"Evolutionists" do not blindly follow the teachings of one man. Darwin is just the one who brought evolution to the forefront. He had contemporaries who were expounding the same teachings. If he hadn't published Origins of Species there would have been a work just as comprehensive within a few months by another scientist. And then thousands of scientists over 150 years in many fields have tested and proved it. "Evolutionists" do not go on the teachings of one man or one book but the research and finding of thousands.

Answer 5

So... your suggestion is that because the founder was ill and when he began to weaken from his illness he tried any therapy that might work... Evolutionary Theory ( a theory that has expanded orders of magnitude sice it was first formulated by Darwin, might I add) is not credible?

How about actually dealing with the evidence instead of pointing at non-sequiturs...

Evolution by Natural Selection is the only reasonable position to take on Biodiversity, given the evidence we have today.

Answer 6

You should understand that people are not convinced in the theory of evolution because Darwin once wrote that in a book and we see him as our "prophet". No, the theory of evolution is accepted because there is so much evidence for it and this theory has been improved and assured by many other scientists after Darwin.

Answer 7

Scientific ideas are judged on their own merit, following principles of evidence and logic. And like medicine, the theory of evolution by natural selection has come a long long way since Darwin and Wallace first struck on it (Wallace in a malaria-induced fever!). Scientists today don't 'listen' to Darwin, but to the work of thousands of scientists who have contributed since, and their own reason. Hopefully my doctor does the same!

Answer 8

Creationism is very unbelievable in its literal form. Darwin's illness is irrelevant and makes you into a fool for not being able to criticize logically. You can go back to school and take up two logic courses. I think Lo115 and Lo120. Also while you're at it, take a course on debate, idiot.

Answer 9

Darwin is not the only supporter of his theory--it has been tested and retested countless times over the years--let me go tests the creationist theory--I just sculpted a man out of mud and asked God to bring it to life--it didn't work--shucky darn!

Answer 10

POOF! There it is!

I see now! You are so right, we just magically appeared one day. It is so logical, how could I have not seen it before.

Has it come down to character assassination? Why don't you read an educational book instead of trying to convince everyone else that fairy tales are true?