Darwin's Conversion

By Author: Johnson Philip
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Many of my readers have asked me about the reported spiritual conversion of Charles Darwin on his death-bed. According to stories circulated widely among Christians, Charles Darwin had a spiritual conversion towards the close of his life. According to these stories, he died a saved man who deeply regretted the theory of evolution propounded by himself. Interestingly, another group of Christians claim that Darwin never claimed that man evolved from monkeys.

Much is usually made of both these incidents, but God fearing Christians and creationists need not take solace from these stories. Even if we grant that Darwin did repent at the end of his life, and also that he never said that man evolved from monkeys, it does not help the present state of evolutionary dogma.

Irrespective of what Darwin might have said or taught, the Theory Of Evolution has become a mighty philosophical force today. It is a thinking meant to oppose all belief in God, and therefore one should spend time in exposing its fallacies instead of taking comfort in Darwin's alleged conversion. However, to set the matters straight, in this article ...
... we will give some information about Darwin's religious (or irreligious) faith.

To start with, Darwin was born in a Christian family, but he was never a deeply religious person. On the contrary, it is obvious that from a very young age he had started disbelieving in God and this attitude kept on hardening with the years. If anyone reads his "The Autobiography Of Charles Darwin" he will be surprised to note that in this book Darwin advances various arguments against spiritual belief. In fact, all the arguments that atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists bring against God today can be found explained and defended here.

Darwin had a strong belief that this world with the unbelievably complex life-forms that are seen can be explained without appealing to the doctrine of creation. This means that, in all possibility, the primary purpose behind investigation of nature was not to discover unknown scientific truths about God's creation, but to lend support to his feelings against God and the Christian faith.

Since many of his family members and close friends were God-fearing Christians, his wife and well wishers often used to press him not to express his atheistic ideas too explicitly. Because of this wish, Darwin's rejection of spiritual beliefs has never come out openly before others. However, a careful reading of his writings leaves no doubt in these subject.

After much deliberation Darwin finally decided that the Old Testament is manifestly false history of the world, and that the Tower of Babel and the record of the giving of Rainbow was all only imaginations. The God mentioned in the Old Testament was a revengeful tyrant who was no more to be trusted than the gods mentioned in the sacred books of the barbarian races. He concluded further that there is nothing like a revelation from God. The miracles mentioned in the Old and the New Testament were completely false because they are just not possible. The gospel accounts are full of historical errors and contradictions, etc.

Darwin was against teaching belief in God to children because, according to him, this would interfere with the their intellectual growth in future.

After all this we are told that there is a very famous story that at the end of his life, Darwin repented of all what he had done. It is said that he expressed his newfound belief in Bible to a certain Lady Hope.

Many creationist investigators have tried to verify this story, but could not find any historical evidence whatsoever to support it. This means that it is better for Christians not to repeat this story without further confirmation. Even if this story is confirmed in future, it is not going to affect the teaching of the Theory Of Evolution. It is because even though Darwin is the father of the modern theory of evolution, the present day teaching of evolution does not depend upon what Darwin said or did not say.

The theory of evolution has become a mighty philosophical force, which is being promoted knowingly or unknowingly for doing away with belief in a Creator. This teaching will not at all be affected by anything that might be reported from the life of Darwin.

Instead of taking comfort in the alleged spiritual conversion of Darwin, concerned people should devote their time and attention to how the foundations of evolution can be exposed scientifically and rationally. Science has built-in methods of evaluation that can be used to test any assumption. Science has built in methods of checking its own theories, and when these tests are applied to the Theory Of Evolution, this theory starts to crumble. This is the reason why suddenly there is a flood of scientific books against Darwinism.

Scientific theories must be proposed on the basis of firm logical and scientific foundations If the foundation is shaky, the theory will also be shaky. At this level it is easy to expose the fallacy of any theory, including the Theory Of Evolution. so instead of taking comfort in the alleged spiritual conversion of Darwin, let us concentrate on the theory of evolution directly. Only this will guarantee that this false philosophical system does not sell itself to our youngsters in the name of science.
Dr. Johnson C. Philip is a scientist and an acknowledged blogging guru having a worldwide following.