Why do some people believe that Charles Darwin?

Question

Why do some people believe that Charles Darwin recanted his theory of evolution on his death bed? There is ZERO credible evidence to support this.

Some girl who I work with told me that this was true, and I asked her where she found that out and she told me at her church. I did some research and I can not find any resources supporting this that are not religiously based. I guess some religious groups are getting very desperate in their attempt to stiffle the truth. I thought religious people weren't supposed to lie? Or is it only okay to lie when its for Jesus?

Answer 1

People are so eager to accept something that validates their beliefs. Rather than examine everything before them and then make a decision, they take their pre-established position and try to construe everything to fit it. This happens in all walks of life.

This specifically is also caused by a whole lot of ignorance. They heard it from a friend, or read it somewhere online, and not only do they accept it without questioning, but they'll argue in support of it until they're blue in the face. I don't get it either.

Answer 2

In your question, you said:

"I guess some religious groups are getting very desperate in their attempt to stiffle the truth."

Those would bee the loony and ignorant lemmings of the RRR Cult, falling for the lies of their leaders -- the False Teachers that the Bible prophecied. And the one thing that the "Religious" Radical Right LACKs the *most* -- is FACTS.

Then you said:

"I thought religious people weren't supposed to lie? Or is it only okay to lie when its for Jesus?"

Lying is against one of the Big Ten! But *everyone* lies. To show how irrational the RRR is, they IGNORE that, and keep whining about homosexuality. (Which, interestingly, is NOT mentioned in the Ten Commandments.)

83% of all Americans profess Christianity. 94% of those are ACTUAL Christians (UNobtrusive, tolerant, and sensible), and the other 6%* are the doltish **pseudo**-Christian bigots and losers of the RRR Cult. The two groups should NEVER be confused with each other. In NO way does the RRR Cult represent Christianity.

* That's 15 million of America's 300 million people... 5% of the U.S. population. And until that infestation becomes extinct, as the equally-mindless segregation agenda did, it IS a continuing problem. Because:

RRR : Society :: 5% arsenic solution : glass of drinking water

Answer 3

It's a myth out started by someone called Lady Hope.

Even if it was true, it would not falsify evolution. Darwin described it, but it has masses of supporting evidence. It was accepted because of the evidence, not because of who was presenting it. It would stand regardless of whether Darwin recanted.

Lying for Jesus? Yes, it happens. I find it sad that it does. Creationist sites are full of misrepresentations of science. I suspect that most of the Christians who believe the creationist claims have been mislead rather than being intentionally dishonest, though.

Answer 4

That story is totally false. But even if it were true it would not matter one bit for two reasons.

1) What would matter more - Darwins informed opinion when he was healthy and at the height of his mental facultires, or his opinion when he was sick and in the final days of pre-death dementia?

2) But more importantly, the theory of evolution is accepted today, not because Darwin said it , but because it is backed by thousands of pieces of evidence. It is useful, not because Darwin wrote a couple of books 150 years ago, but because it serves a contemporary model for studying and understand all facets of biology.

The theory of evolution does not need Darwin. He is not the God of evolution. Only religions need gods - science does not.

Answer 5

His own daughter Henrietta said it wasn't true!

"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."

Answer 6

You already got your answer. They get that information from their church. This is where they get a lot of their knowledge of the world. That is why they insist we didn't evolve from monkeys, and always put quotes around the word "theory".

Answer 7

Unfortunately the religious leaders lie to their flocks and the people assume it's true until they come to places like this and find out to the contrary.

Answer 8

Religious people lie all the time. That's how they keep their parishoners in line.

Answer 9

Charles Darwin was a RACIST. AREN"T you HAPPY to believe in him?
The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
or,
The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
By Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S.,
There is the title of his book.

Answer 10

One of his assistants, who believed his theories to be evil, fabricated the story.