Charles Darwin (1809-1882) thought he would become a surgeon and attended the University of Edinburgh only to find that he could not handle the occasions when the surgeon's assistant held down the shrieking patient by main force. He transferred to Cambridge to study the theology of the Church of England with the intention of becoming an Anglican priest. While there, he read the writing of Alexander von Humboldt and that changed everything. Soon he realized …
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…Baker told the truth after they were captured - "I have sinned, Oh, how I have sinned." When McPherson had her rendezvous, the most prominent of the creationist crowd was the American Anti-Evolution Association, open to all citizens except "Negroes, Atheists, Infidels, Agnostics, Evolutionists and habitual drunkards." Now we have Focus on the Family, and other groups with their slick publications, quiet maneuverings, and the revival of "intelligent design" as the code word for creationism.