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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin: “Dear Sir, I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the son of God. Yours faithfully.”

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Tue, 09/22/15
Did Darwin Renounce Evolution on His Deathbed?
The story has circulated for decades. Charles Darwin, after a career of promoting evolution and naturalism, returned to the Christianity of his youth, renouncing on his deathbed the theory of evolution. The story appears to have been authored by a “Lady Hope,” and relates how she visited him near the end and received his testimony.

Evolutionists in general and his surviving family in particular have disputed the account. Those with him at the time insist there was no evident changing of mind. Indeed, in his autobiography written late in his life, Darwin fully supported evolution. He admitted the concept was distasteful to him and had brought him much dismay, but he still held it.

Lady Hope was real, the wife of Lord Hope. She was a fervent Christian and friend of Darwin’s wife, also a strong Christian who prayed for and witnessed to him all their married life, to no avail according to him. Nevertheless, many have researched the story, and all have concluded it is probably an “urban myth.”

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Jim's Doctrinal Statement

Wed, 09/23/15

Kind of a non-story (for CBS, that is); I wasn’t exactly expecting him to be Armenian Orthodox.

Wed, 09/23/15

Benjamin Wiker’s book The Darwin Myth clearly shows that Darwin knew what he was doing. James Moore’s The Darwin Legend puts paid to the Lady Hope story.

Dr. Paul Henebury

I am Founder of Telos Ministries, and Senior Pastor at Agape Bible Church in N. Ca.

Wed, 09/23/15

Dr. Paul,

I don’t understand your comments.

Could you explain or elaborate?

Thanks.

David R. Brumbelow

Thu, 09/24/15

David,

I simply mean that there are solid treatments of Darwin’s rejection of the Bible and his supposed turnaround which show in detail what this letter says concisely.

God bless,

Paul H.

Dr. Paul Henebury

I am Founder of Telos Ministries, and Senior Pastor at Agape Bible Church in N. Ca.