I have so much to say, I don't know where to start, nor how to make a cohesive narrative out of my musings. For the last several days I have had no desire to write anything, not even in my calendar. As we realized this morning, Michael has been writing voluminous responses in the evolution debate on http://www.oneambition.com/, if only to keep the authorial equilibrium within the Fox household. (In point of fact, his writing has little to do with my own. At this point I think that he should author a book, although the efforts of his editor (myself) would avail him little. I can't even read the stuff.)
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Question: Why believe in something, a theory, that was retracted by the "inventor" on his death bed due to the fact that he accepted Christ?
Another question: (Michael will get a kick out of this one) - People say when they die they want to come back as "X". Why do these people never say, "When I die, I want to come back as a Christian"?
I actually don't think that the Darwin deathbed conversion and retraction story is true. It certainly gets repeated often, and I know I believed it when originally told myself. But I looked into it a while back and it doesn't seem to have a historical basis. The accounts we do have of his death from his family in fact directly contradict the idea.
I hope Michael has more self control than I do. I've gotten myself involved in such discussions on the internet in the past. I wasted days of my life checking for updated responses and then taking three hours or more to compose a reply. While it yielded me some interesting education during my research, I don't know how many hours I wasted on stupid semantic issues. Now I have to just stay away if I want to get anything done.
I'm not sure Darwin has much to do with it anymore. I'm about to make a statement that I'm sure only perpetuates the problem. I don't know because I don't choose to research the matter, but I presume that current evolutionary research is based on some model that is related but not entirely based on Darwin's. Maybe if I make that statement and then immediately retract it I can avoid being accused of intellectual fraud.
Thanks for the comments, both of you.
Christian urban legends are one of the things that disturb me the most about christianity. Why would those who are "of the truth" invent tales of fictioun. Unfortunetly this seems to happen way to often.
John Kelley
I love it that I have such provocative friends. John, I wonder if you used the word "fiction" on purpose.
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