For once, I am near speechless."The Church of England will tomorrow officially apologise to Charles Darwin for misunderstanding his theory of evolution.
In a bizarre step, the Church will address its contrition directly to the Victorian scientist himself, even though he died 126 years ago.
But the move was greeted with derision last night, with Darwin’s great-great-grandson dismissing it as ‘pointless’ and other critics branding it ‘ludicrous’ ... "
Leaving aside the issue that Darwin was wrong and demonstrably so on his belief that natural selection - a scientific fact - could give rise to small changes out of which one species would develop into another as he did not know that all creatures have defined, genetic parameters beyond which they may not proceed, the whole issue returns the Church of England to its default position as this nation's number one laughing stock.
Apologising to dead people? - Time for the C of E to do a refresher course on basic theology!
Beyond this, it all places the Church of England firmly in that silliest of politically correct camps where we all must 'apologise to victims - both real and imagined - from years or even centuries ago'.
One must also remember that the Italians have yet to apologise to us for the predations of their Roman, yob ancestors on their package tours to the UK around 53 BC and beyond.
[Well. I got over that 'speechless' thing.] Incidentally, using alleged mutations as the mechanism whereby one critter could change into another is doomed to fail as mutations are virtually always negatives [ some say 'always' ] and the numbers of beneficial 'changes' required to produce the life we have on the planet today would be trillions multiplied by trillions to cover the whole shebang.
Belief in evolution is not a scientific stance - it is a belief system - a faith no less, as Professor Andy Macintosh demonstrated recently in his amazing and highly convincing rejection of evolution on Radio 2 this week.
SEE POSTING: 21st September 2006.
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055597/Church-makes--8216-ludicrous-8217-apology-Charles-Darwin--126-years-death.html
