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To: CarolinaGuitarman

>You just said it was at his deathbed.

Darwin illness was a protracted one. During this time he lay in the bed that eventually was his deathbed. The recant took place while Darwin lay in his deathbed. And by that it does not mean that he recanted in his last hours, only that he recanted on a given day during Lady Hope visits while he lay in his deathbed.

I hope this straightens this out.


617 posted on 01/25/2006 1:00:28 PM PST by TheBrotherhood
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To: TheBrotherhood
I hope this straightens this out.

Nothing needs straightening out but your chocolate eclair of a spine. A historical fact is the kind of thing easily shown to be true. What you claimed as historical fact is barely possible and by all credible accounts fiction.

Why is it better to be a brazen liar for absolutely all to see than wrong on an obscure and irrelevant point?

619 posted on 01/25/2006 1:13:32 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: TheBrotherhood
"Darwin illness was a protracted one. During this time he lay in the bed that eventually was his deathbed."

No, it wasn't. He didn't become bedridden until April. In December 1881, he and his wife were in London for the holidays. The Lady Hope encounter, if it happened at all, would have been in October, two months before any indication of illness. There is no indication of any illness before December 15th. It went away. In February to April, he had more frequent chest pains. Even so, on April 16-17th he was well enough to go for a walk. He died on the 19th, with his family at his side.

"The recant took place while Darwin lay in his deathbed. And by that it does not mean that he recanted in his last hours, only that he recanted on a given day during Lady Hope visits while he lay in his."

You said before the recantation was during the hours before his death. You are digging yourself even deeper into a hole of your own making.
620 posted on 01/25/2006 1:14:10 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
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