Frequently Asked Questions
About the Friends of Charles Darwin
- Why Darwin?
- For background information about the Friends of Charles Darwin, please refer to the About section
- For our contact details, please refer to the Contact section
- For FAQ about joining the Friends of Charles Darwin, please see the FAQ on the right-hand side of the online enrolment form
About Charles Darwin
- Didn't Karl Marx offer to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin?
- Did my ancestor know Charles Darwin?
- Is Charles Darwin's house open to the public?
Hoary Old Chestnuts asked by Creationists and other charlatans
- Isn't Darwin's Theory of Evolution totally at odds with the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis?
- Isn't Evolution Only a Theory?
- Didn't Darwin recant of his Theory of Evolution on his deathbed and embrace Christianity?
- Didn't Darwin admit that the eye was too complex to have evolved?
- Doesn't Evolution break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
- If humans evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys around?
- Wasn't Darwin a believer in homeopathy?
Hoary Old Chestnuts asked by normal people
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
On this date in 2000, the Bank of England published a press release, announcing that Charles Darwin was to appear on the new £10 note. The Friends of Charles Darwin's campaign was officially over.
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