What is the story, and where did this idea come from? This sounds a lot like a recycled story make up to discredit someone's ideas, right? I've heard almost the same story about Voltaire.
2007-10-25 06:41:43 · 21 answers · asked by Bonezilla 2 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
Christian televangelist fundamentalist preachers told me that.
2007-10-25 06:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Andre 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
People who refuse to accept reason took some quotes of Darwin out of context, and then invented a deathbed confession.
Those who can't stand the truth lie.
2007-10-26 02:45:57 · answer #2 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's like "there are no atheists in fox holes" and dozens of other claims that get made up by assorted preachers, who accept the theory that lying to someone is OK, because you're saving their soul.
You say the lie enough,it becomes accepted as truth.
2007-10-25 23:34:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Lady Hope affair. False claim of Darwin's death bed conversion. Pure hog wash that every one of Darwin's children, who were there, totally refuted. The ignorant still bring it up every once in a while.
2007-10-25 20:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darwin was considered a heretic by the Catholic church because of his ideas. Therefore the story was put out that he had renounced his ideas.It never really happened however.
2007-10-25 13:46:17 · answer #5 · answered by walt631 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is completely made up, simple as that. Dawkins last book goes into that for a moment and explains why it's complete nonsense. He even jokes that after he is dead he is afraid there will be some fake deathbed confession about how he wasn't an atheist and didn't believe in evolution
2007-10-25 13:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by NoGod 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That's just a story. I don't have any source to back this up, but the way I heard it was that his wife started saying it.
2007-10-27 16:41:21 · answer #7 · answered by giuseppi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is nonsense. That would be consistent with the way that many religions deal with the subject of evolution, just make stuff up.
2007-10-25 17:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Lady Hope story, perhaps? It's a fun little hoax of great age.
2007-10-25 13:49:13 · answer #9 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian and do not believe in Evolution as I believe that it is a deliberate Conspiracy by Satan to Brainwash people into believeing that we came from Apes, ect ect,
However, as far as Darwin renouncing Evolution ? I would like to believe that, However, The Reports of Lady Hope are not true.
http://www.carm.org/evo_questions/deathbed.htm
2007-10-25 14:34:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Darwin never renounced his theories. He did apologize for possibly killing god. The catholic church never renounced him or his theories but incorporated it into the first "intelligent design" theory.
2007-10-26 07:16:47 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋