How did Darwin deal with the temptation to be dishonest and keep parrotting the Bible forgetting Evolution?

Answer 1

He was a kind man who struggled with publishing his findings, knowing it would greatly upset Victorian society.

T. Huxley wasn't so shy about it, though.

I can see by the other fundies answers they don't know Darwin's degree was in theology and he was the ship's chaplain when it set sail on its famous voyage.

Darwin died an agnostic. Much of his loss of faith was due to the death of his daughter.

Answer 2

Christians will do anything to destroy Darwin's work. Even if it means destroying the reputation of the man himself.
If anything states opposite views of the bible, they will shoot it down.
It doesn't matter if it is true or not. Darwin's Theory of Evolution is in direct conflict with the bible, therefore it isn't true, and they say that Darwin was a liar.
Wrong!
They can argue until they are blue in the face, it does not change facts.
It doesn't matter what his views were at the time of his death, if he was for, or against his own theories, his work will stand, no matter what anyone says.

Answer 3

Dishonest? He was looking for a reason to not have God around since the loss of his loved one. Instead of turning to God in his time of need, he ran as far as he could...all the way to the Islands. Sounds a little like Jonah however, instead of ending up closer to God, he saw natural selection as a way to get God out of the picture. He also said that 'if' his theory were true, there would soon be fossil evidence to support it that showed these supposed transitions. But guess what...there are NO transitional fossil even to this day!! You might want to read the book...Darwinism Under the Microscope.

Answer 4

He had serious misgivings about publishing his work. In fact, it took at least 20 years from the time he returned from his voyages on the Beagle to work up the nerve to publish Origin of the Species. He had serious mental and physcial health problems in light of the fact that what he was doing was against the established norm of creation science at the time. But his trust in his work and what he had witnessed and the logical conclusions he drew proved the winner. And, for the most part, panned out to be true.

Answer 5

According to the British Admiralty, he dealt with the fact that he was not appointed as the official naturalist on the HMS Beagle (it was Dr. McKormick) by just presenting himself as the official naturalist.
In his autobiography he dealt with his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin's writings, "Zoonomid" by saying they had no effect on him then used granddad's works in his own publication 11 years later.
Maybe he was too busy parrotting grandpops to include bible verses.

Answer 6

I've heard that he was hesitant to publish his theories because he feared attacks from the religious public. He supposedly only went ahead and published because someone else was going to publish a similar theory, (Alfred Wallace). He didn't want to have all the work he had done end up being wasted because someone else published something similar first. So, he co-published with Wallace.

Answer 7

Darwin, actually believed the Bible, and in the end, had a love hate relationship with his theory, which he did not believe as tenaciously as his followers do. (He was willing to put it away if it was disproven.)

Answer 8

Huh? Is this a question? Darwin was a Christian. He also believed in evolution. These are not mutually exclusive. No dishonesty involved.

Answer 9

Common sense and scientific integrity.

Answer 10

Presumably he valued the truth as revealed by objective evidence above anything else.