It's about time!

[David Blacklock]

Church of England will apologize to Charles Darwin (post-humously).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ution.html

Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution
The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work.

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:06AM BST 14 Sep 2008

Sections of Church likely to be dismayed by Darwin move
The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call "anti-evolutionary fervour" an "indictment" on the Church".

The bold move is certain to dismay sections of the Church that believe in creationism and regard Darwin's views as directly opposed to traditional Christian teaching.

The apology, which has been written by the Rev Dr Malcolm Brown, the Church's director of mission and public affairs, says that Christians, in their response to Darwin's theory of natural selection, repeated the mistakes they made in doubting Galileo's astronomy in the 17th century.

"The statement will read: Charles Darwin: 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still. We try to practise the old virtues of 'faith seeking understanding' and hope that makes some amends."

Opposition to evolutionary theories is still "a litmus test of faithfulness" for some Christian movements, the Church will admit. It will say that such attitudes owe much to a fear of perceived threats to Christianity.

The comments are included on a Church of England website promoting the views of Charles Darwin to be launched on Monday.

DB

[Kurieuo]

It's long been accepted in Christian colleges I have found, so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

My beliefs regarding evolution are based on what I deduce from science though, not Christianity and certainly not any particular organisation or church.

[Gman]

Church of England will apologize to Charles Darwin (post-humously).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... ution.html

Charles Darwin to receive apology from the Church of England for rejecting evolution
The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work.

Yah, but when a Christian may embrace Darwinism, they are not embracing the "whole enchilada" of it. Many Christians embrace what is known as Theistic Evolution, meaning that God could still be at the helm of the evolutionary process. This idea alone is a laughable perversion to many in the Darwin camp. Certainly not implied or taught in the public sector.... Any type of foreseeable intelligent design would be an outright violation or crime against science itself. Let's not fool ourselves here...

[Swamper]

I think the idea of apologizing to a dead guy, whether or not he was right, is ridiculous. It's not like it'll do the dead guy any good.