A brief history of Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Darwin's book, Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, also entitled The Preservation of Favored races in the struggle for life. Darwin impressed the world with the proposal that all life began from a single cell, and that over millions of years living creatures have continually changed and adapted becoming more complex and varied.
While looking through some bible verses, I found a verse that describes evolution. I want you to notice how the wording happens to be the same as the idea today, and even plays on the same words used in the title of Darwin's book.
These things listed in Daniel 1:4, are the exact things that were the thoughts of Hitler. He wanted a perfect race. A perfect race has what? No blemish. Hitler wanted a particular race to be favoured. Both Darwin's book, and Daniel list the word used to described this (Favoured). Darwin's book, and Hitler's book. Spoke of people who did not have the capability to learn. But praised the favoured race as being skillful, full of wisdom, And cunning in knowledge. And what would connect all three? The word "science".
Charles Darwin's father and grandfather were physicians, and Darwin wanted to continue this family tradition. Even though he was having some problems with his schooling, Darwin entered Cambridge University in 1828 and graduated with a degree in theology. After graduation, Darwin had planned to become a minister, and minister somewhere in the English countryside.
One day, he received a letter from a boat captain, Captain Fritzroy, who commanded the sailing vessel Beagle. Darwin had been invited to a five year around the world ocean voyage, where he would be given the position of naturalist ( an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms ), in which he accepted, even though he had decided earlier to become a minister.
The voyage took five years from 1831 to 1836. Darwin returned with observations he had made in Teneriffe, the Cape Verde Islands, Brazil, the Galapagos Islands, and elsewhere. During the voyage he had contracted a tropical illness, which made him a semi-invalid for the rest of his life. By 1846 Darwin had published several works based on the discoveries of the voyage and he became secretary of the Geological Society (1838-41).
From 1842 Darwin lived at Down House, Downe. In 1839 he had married his cousin Emma Wedgwood, and when not devoting himself to scientific studies, he led the life of a country gentleman. In the 1840s Darwin worked on his observations of the origin of species for his own use. He began to conclude, although he was deeply anxious about the direction his mind was taking, that species might share a common ancestor. He claimed that varieties within species (such as finches) occurred spontaneously (without advance preparation) and that the "survival of the fittest" continued over millions of years and resulted in the varieties we have today.
However, while on his voyage, Darwin brought the Bible and the newly published first volume of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (the second volume, published after the Beagle left England, was sent on to Darwin in Montevideo). This was a revolutionary book for that time. It subtly ridiculed belief in recent creation in favour of an old earth, and denied that Noah's flood was world wide. This was a denial of God's divine judgement upon the wicked, and was also to deny the power of God in the creation, and is a perfect example of how man has to separate himself from God to accept evolution which has become a part of science. Lyell's book presented Darwin with the time frame of vast geological ages needed to make his theory of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution 'work'. One of Darwin's biographers calls Charles's reading of this book his point of departure from orthodoxy' (separation from a divine creator).
And when Lyell died in 1875, Darwin said, I never forget that almost everything which I have done in science I owe to the study of his great works."
As Darwin turned his back to God because because he read these scientific books, he later showed his enormous contempt for anything to do with God when he wrote:" The Old Testament, from it's manifestly false history of the earth, was no more trusted than the sacred books of the Hindus, or the beliefs of barbarians. The New Testament is a damnable doctrine. I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true, for if so, the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine"
In 1876, in his Autobiography, Darwin wrote,
"Formerly I was led... to the firm conviction of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul. In my Journal I wrote that whilst standing in the midst of the grandeur of a Brazilian forest, 'it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, admiration, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.' I well remember my conviction that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. But now the grandest scenes would not cause any suchconvictions and feelings to rise in my mind."
In 1880, in reply to a correspondent, Charles wrote, "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"
By science jumping on the boat of evolution, it separated itself from God just as Darwin did in order to propose and believe this theory. And science has gone in that direction ever since. Science was founded by Christians, and a lot of what science is based on came from these God fearing people. But now, God fearing people are not accepted anymore, and are often mock in the circles of science. All of this because of one theory that separates all from a divine creator. People who believe that life was designed and created are often known as creationist.
These creationist made great contributions to what science is today. But because of their view about a creator, and science now accepting evolution as fact for origins of life, they would not be accepted. And would be mocked by science as is all the rest of creationists are. Here's a list of some creationists and what they did for science:
Biology: Pasteur, Developed vaccinations and the science of bacteriology. Mendel, Founded the modern science of genetics.
Physics: Newton, Discovered the law of gravity; and invented the reflecting telescope.
Astronomy: Copernicus, Discovered the orbit of the planets.
Electronics: Morse, Invented the telegraph.
Medicine: Lister, Developed the science of antiseptic surgery.
Chemistry: Boyle, Developed the sciences of chemistry and gas dynamics. Davy, Developed the science of thermokinetics.
Charles Darwin died on April 19, 1882, at the age of 73.
Upon Darwin's death, several rumors came out that he recanted his theory and had accepted God. This rumor is fought hard in scientific realms. Why? Because scientists, who are atheist, know that this would ruin the separation of God from science that has been achieved through evolution. What difference does it make if Darwin decided that he wanted to make sure that his soul went to heaven? Unless there is a deeper and darker agenda here that would be affected. Something so evil, that even the mention of God is repulsive to it. Something that has to remove god where ever it goes and where ever it appears. Something that will not stop, until God is totally eliminated!
This book speaks of Darwin's recant of evolution, and his accepting Christ as his savior. And goes more into detail. So the Lady Hope story is not the only story on this. And she was not the only witness to this. The book is out of print. But it is for sale on Amazon.com.
