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To: Westbrook
Is it not true that Darwin himself regretted his own beliefs on his death bed? That he denounced his life work for the damage it had done while he lay dying.

Who knows what kind of salvation he may have asked for in his last moments. I leave that judgment up to God all mighty.

14 posted on 03/11/2009 8:53:01 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

> Is it not true that Darwin himself regretted his own
> beliefs on his death bed? That he denounced his life work
> for the damage it had done while he lay dying.
>
> Who knows what kind of salvation he may have asked for in
> his last moments. I leave that judgment up to God all
> mighty.

False.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbed_conversion

Excerpt follows.

From Darwin’s daughter: “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.” [7]


17 posted on 03/11/2009 9:00:30 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Is it not true that Darwin himself regretted his own beliefs on his death bed?

You are correct. It is not true. Just a falsehood spread by and for Evangelicals who prefer the myth to reality

69 posted on 03/11/2009 11:40:52 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy ( As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. - D)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Is it not true that Darwin himself regretted his own beliefs on his death bed? That he denounced his life work for the damage it had done while he lay dying.

No, it's not true.

98 posted on 03/11/2009 4:36:56 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Probably not, he was getting too old to overturn a theory like that.


102 posted on 03/11/2009 5:39:35 PM PDT by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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