[George W. Bush]

I don't have a clue where you heard Darwin was a Christian, in his autobiography he claims to be an agnostic:

How galled Darwin was when he found that the great scientific minds of his own day rejected his theory uniformly and that the only group who embraced it was the apostasizing Church of England. The top Anglican clergy were overjoyed that some "scientist" could relieve them of worrying that the account of God's creation in the Bible was true. It was also useful in helping the Anglicans to abandon missionary efforts in places like Australia where they could then dismiss the aborigines (who they couldn't seem to convert) as subhuman. Interestingly, fundamentalist Christians moved in at the same time and converted them by the thousands.

Darwin was always galled that his partner in promoting evolution was the Church of England since they used his theory to promote "guided evolution". This Hegelian synthesis by the Anglicans was completely opposed to both traditional creation by God and to true Darwinism which maintained that evolution was entirely random and not necessarily "progressive".

But the Church of England was so grateful to Darwin that they gave him a finer funeral than they ever gave to any other public figure including the great military heroes and political leaders of England.

[rolling_stone]

Thanks for the information, you have peaked my interest in reading more about Darwin, can you suggest any books I might read? Also someone else claimed he was converted to Christianity on his deathbed, can you comment on that? regards...

I also read the more recent analysis disputing T Jefferson's child by slave,but was unsure if a conclusion was reached, only that it was in dispute... it is a constant reminder that like statistics, information can be used to forward an agenda when used by those who care more about their "cause"(lberals) than the truth..