Charles Darwin Questions and Answers

Charles Darwin popularized ideas that continue to influence modern evolutionary thought. Read the articles below to discover more about Darwin, and how his ideas continue to impact today’s society.

Did Charles Darwin ever have any religious beliefs? Was he converted to Christianity before he died?

• Darwin’s slippery slide into unbelief
• Darwin’s Mystery Illness
• Darwin’s Real Message — Have you Missed It?
• Darwinism: it was all in the family
• Did Darwin Recant? (countering the myth of Darwin’s deathbed confession, Lady Hope)
• ‘The child is father of the man’
• Darwin’s arguments against God

How does the Bible refute Darwin’s evolutionary teachings?

• Darwin’s Contribution?
• See Q&A: Genesis

How have Darwin’s ideas contributed to inhumanities and bloodshed, such as seen in WWII?

• Darwin versus Compassion
• Eugenics … death of the defenceless: The legacy of Darwin’s cousin Galton
• Darwin and eugenics: Darwin was indeed a ‘Social Darwinist’
• See also Communism and Nazism

How do creationists respond to the claim that natural selection, as observed by Darwin in the Galápagos Island finches, takes millions of years to occur? Also, is natural selection the same as evolution?

• Darwin’s Finches: Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation
• Darwin’s illegitimate brainchild
• See Q&A: Natural Selection

How did scientists of Darwin’s day react to his book, Origin of Species?

• Holy War? Who really opposed Darwin?
• Blast from the Past (Prof. Blasius, director of leading natural history museum, denounced Origin)

Who was the Reverend Charles Kingsley, and how did his endorsement of Darwin undermine the faith of many in the church?

• Darwin’s quisling
• Potatoes and ‘white chimpanzees’