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evolutionary ideas very similar to those he later promoted, and it is impossible to form an ideaindependently of things you have actually heard!The fact is that Darwin’s views and his book were most definitely the products of a skepticalenvironment. Jacques Barzun rightly says, “Clearly, the spirit of evolution hovered over thecradle of the new century” (Darwin, Marx, Wagner, p. 46). Unitarianism, German “highercriticism,” and humanistic philosophy had greatly weakened biblical faith within the Church ofEngland and throughout society at large.Darwin could have believed the Bible, because he had it in his possession and knew men thatbelieved it, but he chose to reject it. There is no evidence that he even tried to find answers to theskeptical attacks upon Scripture. The answers were available, but Darwin was not interested inproving the Bible, only in disproving it. This willful skepticism has characterized committedDarwinists ever since and is a fulfillment of the prophecy of 2 Peter 3:3-6.“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days SCOFFERS, walking after their own lusts, Andsaying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they werefrom the beginning of the creation. For this they WILLINGLY ARE IGNORANT of, that by the word of Godthe heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world thatthen was, being overflowed with water, perished.”Some have pointed to Darwin’s reference to creation at the end of On the Origin of Species asevidence that he continued to believe in God, but that was a mere sap thrown out by a weak manwho feared the social and financial consequences of his own views. It must never be forgottenthat Darwin was not a brave man. To reference “creation” in Origin of Species when he hadrejected the concept of an intelligent creator was hypocrisy and cowardice. In fact, he came toregret it privately and expressed this in a letter to a friend to whom he admitted that he hadfeared public opinion: “I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used thePentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant ‘appeared’ by some wholly unknownprocess” (Darwin, Autobiography. p. 272).Darwin was buried in Westminster Abbey with a full-blown Anglican funeral. The “elders ofscience, State, and Church, the nobility of birth and talent” were in attendance. The coffin wasdraped in black velvet and covered with white flowers. Choristers hypocritically sang “I am theresurrection.” A special hymn composed for the occasion was taken from the book of Proverbs.Incongruously, it began, “Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and getting understanding” andended with, “His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” As the coffin waslowered into the grave, the choristers sang, “His body is buried in peace, but his name livethevermore.”There is a popular myth that Darwin was converted on his deathbed. It is said that this occurredduring a visit by a Lady Hope to Darwin’s house in 1881, but it isn’t true. Darwin biographerJames Moore calls this “the Darwin Legend.” Charles’s daughter (Henrietta Litchfield) wrote onpage 12 of the London evangelical weekly, The Christian, dated February 23, 1922, “I was200