Intrepid's link takes one to a page maintained by "The Parent Company," and also proudly displays the logo of the Creation Science Research Center (Holy Oxymoron, Batman!). The "About Us" link for "The Parent Company" describes the organization as follows:
Quote:o build a Biblical Framework for all of education based on God's word and God's relationship with man -- not man's relationship to man (Biblically based, not secular knowledge with scripture added).
To establish eternal values into our children so that they understand knowledge and gain wisdom in the light of eternity as they stand before God, not in earthly terms such as money, career or things.
To train parents "How to train their children in the Way," so as to establish them in the faith and teach them to fulfill the will of God.
To create families that serve the Lord together and to teach them the importance of putting God first in all things so they may reach out to them and fulfill the great commission.
To provide multimedia training materials with written manuals and study guides that accomplish these goals and objectives so that we may be sure that what we have taught is duplicable in them and that each family can therefore do the will of God and teach others to do the same.
To prepare children to stand up for their faith even in the public schools as an outreach to others.
To instill in parents the fervent desire to serve God and to pass their faith on to the next generation by preparing their children to live daily for our Lord.
To prepare each of us as parents and children to stand before God, without spot and blameless, as we step into eternity and are judged for our very words and deeds.
Our Desire
To develop a parents ministry that truly prepares parents to deal with the issues and needs of their children and that will strengthen their family as together we do the will of God.
To establish a means of reaching parents and helping them to reach all of the other Christian families in all of our churches and then to train them, thereby teaching them to reach out to others for our Lord.
To take our completed program that builds a Biblical Framework for all of education as an alternative to the public schools and then develop a proper and complete education for the Christian school and home.
To utilize the technology of the internet, television and direct broadcast satellite to take our educational programs to the world in order to fulfill the great commission.
Our Plan
To develop a true relationship with you and your family that will accomplish these goals and fulfill the Lord's command to us to go, reach and teach others.
To further develop our educational program as a vehicle that truly reaches out to parents and children, teaching them to reach out again to others.
To establish a worldwide educational training ministry to parents and children, to the honor and glory of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Therefore, this site is untrustworthy as an unbiased source for the life of Charles Darwin.
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It also helps to view the exact material, which Intrepid has knowingly misrepresented here:
Charles Darwin's Hidden Agenda for Science wrote:The standard, long held view of the connection between Darwin's religion and his theory is wrong. Supposedly he was a Christian who studied at Cambridge to become a minister. But then, during his voyage around the world on the Beagle, the scientific facts persuaded him to believe in evolution and give up his Christian faith. However, an examination of the various influences upon the youthful Charles Darwin reveals an entirely different story.
Family Background.
Charles' grandfather, Erasmus, a successful and wealthy physician in the 18th century, wrote the book, Zoonomia (Laws of Life), which portrays a pantheistic world in which all life and species evolved. Erasmus' close friend, industrialist Josiah Wedgwood I, embraced Unitarian theology. Erasmus' son and Charles' father, Robert Darwin, also a wealthy physician, probably an atheist, married Susannah Wedgwood. Other marriage ties between the two families followed. Not surprisingly, Darwin males generally were freethinkers, following the Unitarian, pantheistic and atheistic views of their principal sires.
The Son, His Father and His Wife.
Charles Darwin, was born in 1809. His dominant, atheistic father, Robert, advised him to conceal his unorthodox beliefs from his wife. Should he predecease her this would spare her from unnecessary grief because of her spouse's dying an unbeliever. Charles never spoke publicly about his religious views. However, before he married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 he told her about his rejection of Christian faith. Though probably not herself evangelical, she was nevertheless pious, and the rather gross unbelief of her husband was painful to her. But during his life and even after his death she protected his reputation by concealing his unbelief.
Charles' Education
Robert Darwin sent his son off to Edinburgh University in 1825. The sixteen-year-old boy found himself in a university community which was in a continual ferment of radicalism of all sorts advanced by dissenters from the Anglican church, freethinkers, anti-Christians and atheists, materialists and evolutionists. Evolution was in the air. Most influential in this phase of Charles Darwin's life was Robert Grant, a dozen years his senior. Holding the medical degree from Edinburgh, he had made himself the leading British authority in invertebrate zoology. Grant was an avowed atheist, and evolutionist, and also a social and political radical. On zoological field trips with Grant young Charles listened to his persuasive private lecturing but kept his own counsel. Deeply interested in biological science, Charles abhorred medicine The sight of blood sickened him. After two years he returned home without a degree.
Disappointed, father Robert Darwin decided to send him off to Cambridge University for a degree in theology, after which he could purchase for him a "living" in an Anglican country church. There he could be a sportsman, a scholar, or an amateur naturalist, supported by a government stipend for life. Charles dutifully signed onto the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England and entered Cambridge. He surely saw the hypocrisy in an atheist father's financing his son's preparation to be a minister of the gospel.
1. There is a ludicrous contention in the very first paragraph that the voyage of
Beagle lead Darwing to "believe in evolution and give up his Christian faith." This laughably specious for a variety of reasons: Darwin cannot be said to have abandoned his faith except very slowly, and as he said himself: "disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress." That is not consistent with the claims of this article. Charles took the position on board
Beagle at the insistence of his unlce, the younger Josiah Wedgewood--his own father was then urging him to enter the clergy. Livings in the Church of England were never available for "purchase," as was the case with commissions in the Army. Many were in the gift of influential men, but they were not bought and sold. He could not have been convinced to believe a theory (evolution) which had not yet been articulated, and would not be articulated for years to come. Finally, how could he give up his Christian faith if, as later paragraphs suggest, he never had a Christian faith.
2. The statement that
Zoonomia portrays a pantheistic world is unwarranted--and as with all of this tripe which Intrepid has dredged up, it is not supported by a single citation of anyone's text, whether it is the text of Erasumus Darwin's work, or a reputable biographer. The author of this horseshit is making a series of statements from authority, and supplies absolutely no evidence to back up his statements from any reputable source.
3. The author of this smear job first writes:
Erasmus' son and Charles' father, Robert Darwin, also a wealthy physician, probably an atheist, married Susannah Wedgwood. (emphasis added)--this after noting that Wedgewood's father was a Unitarian (Oh Horrors ! ! !). In the second succeeding sentence, the author (unnamed) of this hatchet job writes:
Not surprisingly, Darwin males generally were freethinkers, following the Unitarian, pantheistic and atheistic views of their principal sires.--so Darwin and his family go from "probably atheist" to "Unitarian, pantheistic and atheistic" in just two short sentences.
4. This slanderer then proceeds to make a series of unsupported claims about Darwin and his relationship to his wife. Having suggested that Robert Darwin were probably atheist (without providing a shred of evidence, beyond comdenming Josiah Wedgewood for being Unitarian--Oh the Horror, Oh the Humanity! ! !), the author proceeds to do a hack job on Darwin's relationship with his wife on the basis that having made the suggestion has now demonstrated that Darwin were an atheist.
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Darwin Biography at Darwin-literature-dot-com,
Wikipedia wrote:Darwin became particularly enthused by the writings of William Paley, including the argument of divine design in nature. In his finals in January 1831, he performed well in theology and, having scraped through in classics, mathematics and physics, came tenth out of a pass list of 178. (Note that William Paley was famous for his 1802 articulation of the "watchmaker analogy.")
The Wikipedia article on Charles Darwin.
Quote:and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.
From Darwin's manuscript autobiography, left for his children and published by his son.
At the most one could say that Darwin became a passive agnostic. That in no way authorizes the implication of "Aussie Angel's" snear which suggested that he were an atheist.
