To: Mr. Silverback
5) Charles Darwin was a devout Christian as was American physicist Arthur Holly Compton, America's first pre-eminent modern scientist.
2 posted on
12/04/2003 11:22:00 AM PST by
.cnI redruM
( "The American people would rather reach for the stars than reach for excuses why we shouldn't." -)
To: .cnI redruM
There is some controversy as to how devout Darwin was (especially at the end of his life), but what I think is interesting is that he (for all intents and purposes) settled a running argument in the editorial page of a london newspaper over the validity of Christian mission work. He said that any shipwrecked sailor finding himself on an unknown island would know he was safe if the natives had a church, otherwise he should consider himself fair game.
5 posted on
12/04/2003 11:26:53 AM PST by
Mr. Silverback
(Pre-empt the third murder attempt-- Pray for Terry Schiavo!)
To: .cnI redruM
"Charles Darwin was a devout Christian as was American physicist Arthur Holly Compton, America's first pre-eminent modern scientist."
Too funny! He was your garden variety wayward soul.
59 posted on
12/04/2003 3:17:05 PM PST by
nmh
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