did you know DARWIN?

Question

became a christian, and regreted ever comming up with the big bang B.S.?

Answer 1

Who told you that lie? Did you verify it?
That urban myth has been going around for so long...it's sad that is all you can come up with.

Answer 2

The Big Bang?? It will really help your argument to look vaguely credible if you remembered that Darwin devised the theory of EVOLUTION, not the Big Bang.

When asked about his religious views, he wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God, and that generally "an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind." (The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, including an Autobiographical Chapter, 1887, p.64)

Get your facts right before you come up with such tosh.

Answer 3

Darwin did not become a christian. He was brought up christian, but his intellect couldn't maintain the myth.

http://www.secweb.org/index.aspx?action=viewAsset&id=765
Excerpt:
When we read Darwin's autobiography we realize that Darwin was very honest regarding his disbelief about God and Christianity. He wrote, "I gradually came to disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation." (p 86) Darwin shares that his disillusionment with faith was not precipitated by any catastrophic encounter, rather it was the result of a gradual process of rationally understanding the world around him. He stated,

Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. 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.

This paragraph is one of those which offended the religious sensibilities of Darwin's wife, so she took the liberty of censoring it. Nora Barlow shares as a footnote "Mrs. Darwin annotated this passage (from 'and have never since doubted' ... to 'damnable doctrine') in her own handwriting. She writes, 'I should dislike the passage in brackets to be published. It seems to me raw. Nothing can be said too severe upon the doctrine of everlasting punishment for disbelief ... but very few would now call that "Christianity" (tho the words are there).' This was written six months after her husband's death. The passage was not published." (p 87)
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Answer 4

No he didn't – he was gonna get trained as a preacher but found another passion instead.
That's more fundie propaganda (lies).
Darwin never came up with Big Bang.
In fact he was over 30 years before the term was made up or even mentioned.
Darwin was the one who sorta came up with Evolution.
You’re heard of that haven’t you?
It’s sorta like creation (god did it) but it’s nothing like it cos ‘god’ doesn’t get a mention.

I'm sure Abraham Lincoln was thinking of you when he said "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
That's the trouble when you start quoting your parasitic leeches and preachers.

HEY! but thanks for the laughs.
That's why I come here - I don't have cable.
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Answer 5

Darwin didn't come up with the Big Bang. He came up with the theory of natural selection (Evolution). And he was a Christian his entire life.
I hate to tell you this, but you need to educate yourself before you step into an argument you so obviously know nothing about. Go read some books, and stop listening to your Pastor. It might do you some good....

Answer 6

1- No he didn't. It was a lie.
2- Charles Darwin only came up with evolution.

I guess you could be referring to Erasmus Darwin, but he really only proposed an osculating model for the Universe. It wasn't properly the Big Bang theory. And he was much more the atheist than his grandson, Charles.

Answer 7

And did you know that Darwin came up with the EVOLUTIONARY THEORY, not the big bang? And when asked about his religious views, he wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God, and that generally "an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind."

Answer 8

Sorry but I have never associated Darwin with the Big Bang. Evolution is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Darwin.

Answer 9

Fantastically vapid! You know you're against something, but you can't quite figure out just what. DARWIN had nothing to do with the Big Bang except for coming along for the ride, like all of us.

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Answer 10

Charles Darwin came up with the Evolution theory, not the big bang. He was a biologist, not an astronimer. Get your facts right before you start trying to stir up trouble.

Answer 11

Holy smokes...you don't even know what Darwin "came up with", and you're claiming that you know what he thought later in life?

This is an old lie, made up by a Christian evanglical by the name of "Lady Hope", who claimed that Darwin recanted to her on his deathbed. It is popularly spread by one Christian to another. However, Darwin's own family said that he never even KNEW "Lady Hope", and she most certainly was NOT at his deathbed. His own daughter Henrietta said ‘I was present at his deathbed,’ she wrote in the Christian for February 23, 1922. ‘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.’”