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 Charles Darwin : QuicklyFind Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, the fifth of six children of Robert and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood), and the grandson of Erasmus Darwin, and of Josiah Wedgwood.
Darwin died in Downe, Kent, England, on 19 April 1882 was given a state funeral, and interred in Westminster Abbey near Isaac Newton.
Darwin's own struggle with faith got sharper the older he became, and his posthumously-published autobiography contained quotes about Christianity that were omitted by Darwin's wife Emma and his son Francis because they were deemed dangerous for Charles Darwin's reputation.
www.quicklyfind.com /info/Charles_Darwin.htm   (2707 words)

  
 Chapter 5 - In the Minds of Men, Fifth Edition
Darwin had married the daughter of the Unitarian Josiah Wedgwood, but she died when Charles was five, and until he was eight he was educated at home by his elder sister, Caroline.
Darwin was embroiled in a disease-ravaged household at the time of the meeting and did not attend, so that he did not in fact present a preliminary joint paper with the Wallace paper and "with a fineness of character" share the priority with Wallace, as it is commonly reported.
Darwin is, in fact, considered to be the "father of psychology" by the faithful (Zusne 1975, 112);[l7] a moment's reflection on, for instance, Freudian psychology will show it to be strictly based on Darwinian principles.
www.creationism.org /books/TaylorInMindsMen/TaylorIMMe05.htm   (7099 words)

  
 Rocky Road: Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin's grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, the scientist, poet, inventor, doctor and polymath.
Darwin always considered the Beagle voyage the defining experience of his life, and he was right; it provided him with the evidence that would forever change biology.
In fact, Darwin devised no great evolutionary theory until after his return to England, and he was not the first person to propose evolution; it was widely discussed — at least in scientific circles — long before he published any of his theories.
www.strangescience.net /darwin.htm   (2231 words)

  
 Myth: Charles Darwin refuted, recanted, renounced, etc.
Charles Robert Darwin, (1809-1882), an English naturalist whose theory of evolution is one of the greatest contributions ever made to science.
Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, the son of a physician.
Darwin took Wallace's manuscript to a friend, Sir Charles Lyell, who decided that both Wallace's and Darwin's ideas should be presented at the same time.
www.holysmoke.org /cretins/darwin2.htm   (1190 words)

  
 Did Darwin Die as a Christian?
Many fundamentalist Christians believe that Charles Darwin repented for his "anti-religious" evolution theory and at last converted to be a Christian just before he died.
This story started propagating shortly after Darwin’s death, when a lady named Lady Hope addressed a gathering of young men and women at the educational establishment founded by the evangelist Dwight L. Moody at Northfield, Massachusetts and claimed that Darwin was converted to Christianity in his death-bed.
The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea, by Ronald W. Clark, (published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985), p.
www.mukto-mona.com /Special_Event_/Darwin_day/lady_hope290106.htm   (1171 words)

  
 Darwin’s mystery illness
Darwin's chief proponent was the most prominent unbeliever, hater of religion, and arch-enemy of the Church of his day—Thomas Henry Huxley, nicknamed 'Darwin's bulldog'.
Natural selection to Darwin was not something progressive, as many modern writers portray it, much less a process that God used to create, as theistic evolutionists proclaim it; rather it was something which was utterly planless and purposeless—Gould refers to it as 'the naturalism of purposelessness'.
Darwin knew that this was an idea which could and would destroy the faith of millions of believers—and he was the one who was about to unleash it on an unsuspecting world.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v17/i4/darwins_illness.asp   (1957 words)

  
 Darwin -- Short Bio
Darwin, of shy and retiring tempement, and plagued by poor health, did not seek out conflict or controversy, and demurred when occasions arose to discuss or debate his views in public.
After Darwin had written down his ideas in his long paper of 1844 he was stricken with bouts of bad health and several tragedies in his personal life.
Darwin was deeply affected by the death of his older brother Erasmus ("Ras") in August 1881, and it is conjectured that his grief may have exacerbated the seriousness of his own poor health.
www.public.coe.edu /departments/Biology/darwin_bio.html   (2282 words)

  
 Darwin's shrink: a noted Darwin historian proves the naturalist's inner life Natural History - Find Articles
But my interest from the first, staring at Darwin's portrait when I was a boy, was, "What was he like as a man?" I really started taking him on seriously in 1959, when I was thirty-five, and there were all the scientific celebrations and press reports about the centenary of the Origin of Species.
Darwin lived an exemplary life as an English country gentleman, the affectionate father to a brood of seven children.
Darwin was always a sensitive individual, but after the Beagle voyage he became even more so, and two years afterward suffered a debilitating illness.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_114/ai_n15792476   (938 words)

  
 Darwin's illness revealed -- Campbell and Matthews 81 (954): 248 -- Postgraduate Medical Journal
was a pioneer of immunisation, Charles was not immunised as
Charles Darwin—the affective sources of his inspiration and anxiety.
Darwin’s health in relation to his voyage to South America.
pmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/81/954/248   (2352 words)

  
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She claimed to have visited Darwin on his deathbed while he was reading the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Darwin’s family was very protective of his privacy and frail health.
Darwin was an agnostic who did not like what he referred to as the arrogance of much of the established religions.
www.traviscase.org /Sermons/Appendix/12-LadyHopeStory.html   (726 words)

  
 Charles Darwin's illness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
imputes a psychic cause based on the theory of Oedipal complex, proposing that Darwin's illness was "an expression of repressed anger toward his father" (the physician Robert Darwin).
An argument put forward for a diagnosis of Ménière's is that Darwin hunted a lot when he was young and could have damaged his inner ear with the repeated noise of shooting.
One of the diagnoses that he received from his physicians at the time was that of "suppressed gout"; the idea that this was an early name for Ménière's lacks any ground.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Darwin's_illness   (3511 words)

  
 The Lady Hope Story: A Widespread Falsehood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
File pulled from the Talk.Origins Archive, with additional information from the Autobiography of Charles Darwin and The Darwin Legend, by James Moore.
The Survival of Charles Darwin: A Biography of a Man and an Idea, by Ronald W. Clark, (published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1985), p.
Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist, New York: W.
www.stephenjaygould.org /ctrl/ladyhope.html   (499 words)

  
 "Charles Darwin's Illness"
Darwin spent five happy, strenuous years exploring some of the wildest places on earth.
Not a few contemporaries dismissed Darwin's illness as hypochondria; later writers generally assumed it was psychosomatic, probably a reaction to an autocratic father or to the supposed theological implications of his theory of natural selection.
With hindsight, it seems clear that it was this protozoan, and not inner doubts or guilt, that reduced a vigorous adventurer to a frail, prematurely aged man who for 40 years (as his son put it) "never knew one day of the health of ordinary men."
salwen.com /darwin.html   (326 words)

  
 Lady Hope Story
In another newsgroup, someone has posted that Darwin converted to Christianity before he died and wrote that he made a mistake in advocating in evolution.
The Survival of Charles Darwin: a Biography of a Man and an Idea
Shortly after his death, Lady Hope addressed a gathering of young men and women at the educational establishment founded by the evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody at Northfield, Massachusetts.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/hope.html   (496 words)

  
 AboutDarwin.com - Journal Articles
"Charles Darwin as a student in Edinburgh 1825-27."
Charles Darwin; narrative of a journey to the Galapagos Islands."
"Anti-Darwin, anti-Spencer: Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Darwin and Darwinism."
www.aboutdarwin.com /literature/Jour_01.html   (986 words)

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