I can remember at least someone with radical ideas doing this. It may have been him. I'm not 100% sure though.
I believe this is either a social rumour or more likely its being confused with someone else. I cant remember where I read this but its been 'debunked' on several websites that specialise in these things. I'd have to read up on him again, but to the best of my knowledge he never denounced his Christianity and like most Evolutionists today he always maintained that some sort of Intelligent Designer (God to Darwin) was always behind it all anyways. One thing that is interesting, Darwin has been said to have 'Rejected Darwinism' Post Mortem in that he once said that unless the Fossil Records proved out to show gradual 'morphing' of species to species (remember at his time they just started digging so to speak) then he said his theory is gone. Now 100+ years later and a lot of excavation and of course we now know there are no gradual morphing of species. Darwins theory is indeed rejected by his followers (and presumably him by now) and is replaced with the theory (well.. the 'guess') that Species must have just stayed the same and then BAM suddenly morphed into a new one. They call it 'Punctuated Equilibrium' and weirdly 'Neo Darwinism' even though its not Darwinism at all anymore. So yea.. interesting fellow that Darwin. I wish I could remember the book I had in the library back in Scotland but it was an old book and described the 'not so nice' aspects of his career too. Its pretty much understood that he did not really come up with the idea but (arguably) stole it from another dude. btw.. the 'DeathBed' conversion story has been attributed to Constantine as well and there doesnt seem to be any good reason to believe thats right either. See: http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/famous_atheist_now_believes_in_god_from_abc_news/ One site reported God as saying: "Neener Neener.. too late" I think that was also a rumour.
funny but i studied animals and darwin ..i never heard that stuff attributed to him ..i do know that he sanitized the earlier versions of the origins of species so as to not get the church too riled up ,but he had the right idea to start with ...he was a brilliant man and i for one do agree with his theories ..and the word is theory ......in the distant future they may be refuted but i know it won't be by the creationists ..........i studied that too ...what a pile of crock .......but then again you can sell anything to the gullible ..just watch the holier than thou preachers on every major TV station ..they get caught with their fingers in the cookie jar and blame it on the devil and people flock to replentish their bank coffers .P>T>Barnum had it right too ...there'a sucker born every minute
Really, punctuated equilibrium -vs- gradual changes is just a matter of details- we're talking merely about the rate and pattern of change, not the fact that such changes happened nor the basic mechanisms driving them. Darwinian evolution has not been replaced by another theory, it's just been modified over the years to account for new data.
This isn't my idea, and don't endorse it, but I read this somewhere, and it's amusing, at least. And it would test the creationist's belief in God: Next time you encounter a creationist, just smile nicely and then punch him in the face. While he's tryin to get up, saying "You bastard, why'd you do that?" you can just deny doing it. I mean, it's possible that the world was just created a moment before, and that God planted false memories of a past just to test his faith. Who the hell is he to question what God can do and what he can't?
Evolution is the standard belief now among all biologists. Darwin didn't come up with the idea but he explained how it happened through natural selection when previously other scientists such as Lamarck and Darwins own grandfather had never came up with a reason as to why evolution occured. We now know that evolution occurs due to many more reasons than natural selection but natural selection is the main process. I'm sorry to have gone off topic. I don't know if Darwin renounced his ideas at his time of death. I reckon if he did it would be common knowledge.
It doesn't matter if he did or if he didn't. His theory has changed science as we know it.....for the better.
Thats right. And even if he did renounce it, we now know that his theory is correct, so it's only a little fact that isn't very relevant to anybody studying evolution. I had a look at his biography online and it never mentioned him renouncing anything at his time of death.
That's true, but it was for the better mainly becouse it was a blow to the church, wich is good, and indeed science wich is good. But darwin was wrong, It was the Annunaki, i'm telling ya, don't tell anyone one ells or they'll kill you
Well if you were being condemned by every religious institution around for your life's work, isn't there a chance you'd call it all BS and praise god's name if you knew you were going to die? It's only smart. That way, if there is a hell, and evolution would have sent him there, he renounces it and doesn't go there.
Personally, and this is just my opinion... but I also think Darwin was a tool... His theory is about as retarded as Christianity... I wish at one point someone would just stand up and say that yea... man has achieved a lot scientifity... yet... we have no clue, or will never be able to correctly say what happened, and how we evolved... I feel our knowledge is such a small speck when contrasted to the larger picture of things...
Oh lots of people are able to tell you that. But a lot of those people are the idiotic church, or idiotic goverments. but as soon as they tell that they would lose all power. a small peck on the larger picture, sure undiniable. but there's a lot of history we don't know off, simply becuase they hold these fact from us. The 10th planet, Niberu, Pheaton, the Annunaki, Atlantis, Adam & Eve, the pyramids, the inca's/maya's they knew. can you connect the dots? If your idea of God is your creator, then we shouldn't have any problems with cloning, or genetic manipulation, becuase we're a direct result of that. life as we know it started out in a lab, that was Adem, the geneticly manipulated mining slave! check the koran (no really) so Jim Morrison was right after all, We're all a bunch of fucking slaves...
Hey Neo.. I agree.. but I think its much simpler than that... See, many things they don't keep from us... people just for some strange reason hate to admit that they don't know something. Have you ever had someone at work that would rather die than admit they were wrong, or don't know something... same kinda deal.. The Church believes that God Created everything. The Big Boom says something else... but really... if God created everything... Where did God come from? Who made god? is God a guy? a ghost? what? or the big boom, they say the universe was once smaller than the head of a pin - until it exploded.. and now the universe is forever expanding. The reason they believe this to be true, is that planets and stars are moving away from us... wow.. now that’s brilliant.. Anyhow, my question is where did the universe or the pin, or the explosion come from? (could have been gods insurgents?)... I donno... What existed before the boom or god? was it nothing? Can nothing really exists... if it did, than its obviously it was something... there can be no such thing as nothing... yet the fact that your reading this over the internet proves that there is something.. there is you and me.... I think people, the Church and the scientist should stick to what they can comprehend... science has not found a way to cure the cold, yet they think they can solve life’s greatest mystery... I don’t think so...
Is the big bang an illogical conclusion to draw from all the stars and galaxies moving away? I wouldn't say that nothing can't exist. I would say that if there was nothing, nothing would form, so I agree that there must have been something. Finding out what it was is not only not easy, it may not be possible, and we may have to be happy with what we know about the origin of the universe. Regarding Darwin praising god...there is no eternal reward for believing in evolution. There is no penalty for not believing in it. There are rewards and penalties written into religion, so given the choice (in his environment of being condemned), I would say that IF that happened, the reason I gave is the most likely reason for it.
