Poor Darwin's false religion

WorldNetDaily ^ | February 3, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern | Pat Boone

[Tim Long]

Pat Boone, King of Metal, gets it right.

[Alter Kaker]

This same crap article was already posted last week. Pat Boone should stick to what he does best -- covering R&B tunes badly and without attribution to the original artists.

[Alter Kaker]

My apologies. Apparently Pat Boone has actually written two ill-informed, incomprehensible anti-science screeds in the span of one week.

Here is the other. Pat Boone is as literate on evolution as Barbra Streisand is on energy policy.

[microgood]

Why I believe in evolution

[raj bhatia]

Nice response. Now the anti-science zealots will post images of a brain, a cross-section of the human body along with arguments that has not been published in any half-decent science journal.

[billybudd]

Yet another journalist who failed high school science attempting to get in a word. How about actually addressing the predictions of and evidence for theories of evolution by natural selection? Nah, too much brainpower required.

[wireman]

Pat Freakin' Boone!

I guess THAT settles it once and for all!

[Hoplite]

Here's the brian.

Which is as far as I got
before the writer's block set in.

[Hoplite]

B-R-A-I-N.

Oh, that's going to leave a mark.

[Coyoteman]

But in a fascinating book, John Myers' "Voices from the Edge of Eternity," we find the detailed personal account of Lady Hope, of Northfield, England, who visited the aging scientist often at his bedside during his last days. It's too long to recount well here, but she tells of the Bible he was reading constantly and of the worship services that took place regularly in the summerhouse in his garden. She says that when she brought up the controversy still raging between believers in the Genesis account of creation and the growing group of scientists and teachers dismissing that account in favor of his "The Origin of Species" and related theories, he seemed distressed. And "a look of agony came over his face as he said 'I was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time about everything. To my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.'"

Pat should stick to singing.

From Index to Creationist Claims:

Claim CG001:

Darwin renounced evolution on his deathbed.

Source:

Enoch, H., 1916. Darwin's final recantation. Bombay Guardian, 25 March 1916, quoted at http://www.forerunner.com/forerunner/X0724_Darwins_Final_Recant.html

Response:

1. The story of Darwin's recanting is not true. Shortly after Darwin's death, Lady Hope told a gathering that she had visited Darwin on his deathbed and that he had expressed regret over evolution and had accepted Christ. However, Darwin's daughter Henrietta, who was with him during his last days, said Lady Hope never visited during any of Darwin's illnesses, that Darwin probably never saw her at any time, and that he never recanted any of his scientific views (Clark 1984, 199; Yates 1994).
   
   
2. The story would be irrelevant even if true. The theory of evolution rests upon reams of evidence from many different sources, not upon the authority of any person or persons.

Links:

Greig, Russell, 1996. Did Darwin recant? Creation 18(1): 36-37. http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1315.asp

Yates, Simon, 1994. The Lady Hope story: A widespread falsehood. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html

References:

1. Clark, Ronald W., 1984. The Survival of Charles Darwin: A biography of a man and an idea. New York: Random House.
2. Yates, Simon, 1994. (see above)

Further Reading:

Clark, Ronald W., 1984. The Survival of Charles Darwin: A biography of a man and an idea. New York: Random House.

[Alter Kaker]

FYI to Mr. Boone, the "Lady Hope" story of Darwin's deathbed recantment is (like the rest of this article) a complete fabrication.

Don't trust me on this -- even the creationists agree that the Lady Hope story is nonsense. "Answers in Genesis" says, "It... appears that Darwin did not recant, and it is a pity that to this day the Lady Hope story occasionally appears in tracts published and given out by well-meaning people.

[Alter Kaker]

"Recantation" not "recantment." Forgive me, English is not my native tongue.

[Taft in '52]

Pat, you're out of your ball park. Please go back to Speedy Gonzales.

[fivecatsandadog]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The story of Darwin's recanting is not true. Shortly after Darwin's death, Lady Hope told a gathering that she had visited Darwin on his deathbed and that he had expressed regret over evolution and had accepted Christ. However, Darwin's daughter Henrietta, who was with him during his last days, said Lady Hope never visited during any of Darwin's illnesses, that Darwin probably never saw her at any time, and that he never recanted any of his scientific views (Clark 1984, 199; Yates 1994).

And even if he had, so what? Evolution is science - whether Darwin continued to believe it or not matters as much as whether Newton continued to believe in gravity.

[Axlrose]

As the anti Bible zealots continue to deny the Word.....

[wireman]

As the anti Bible zealots continue to deny the Word.....

Yeah, that three-quarters of the planet's population who aren't Christian are a bunch of losers.

[highimpact]

I love that clip. "You're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish squirrel." ROFL!

[freespirited]

Pat Boone is as literate on evolution as Barbra Streisand is on energy policy.

You may be giving him too much credit.

[Alter Kaker]

As the anti Bible zealots continue to deny the Word.....

I can't speak for anybody else, but I'm not anti-Bible. The Bible is a religious text, it isn't a textbook.