Yes, he did admit it in his deathbed while surrounded by his family and his closest evolutionist friends. Many of his followers later admitted that Darwin and themselves were wrong about evolution.
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" "Darwin admitted in the end he was wrong."
Yes, he did admit it in his deathbed while surrounded by his family and his closest evolutionist friends. Many of his followers later admitted that Darwin and themselves were wrong about evolution."
Actually, the story that Darwin recanted on his deathbed has long since been discredited.
Stories about his recantation started surfacing almost immediately after his death in 1882.
The main problem with these stories is that they were all denied by members of Darwin's family, including both his son & his daughter.
Darwin's son, Francis Darwin, wrote to Thomas Huxley in 1887, that a report that Charles had renounced evolution on his deathbed was "false and without any kind of foundation". In 1917 Francis Darwin again affirmed that he had "no reason whatever to believe that he [his father] ever altered his agnostic point of view".
Charles's daughter, Henrietta Litchfield, wrote in the London evangelical weekly, The Christian, for Feb. 23, 1922:
"I was present at his deathbed. [...] He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier … . "
It should be noted that Darwin's wife Emma was a conventionally pious woman & was deeply pained by the "irreligious" nature of her husband's views. She would have been strongly motivated to have corroborated any story of a conversion, if such had occurred. She never did.