With his "The Origin of Species" about to be released, he wrote to fellow British biologist George Bentham, "Thank you heartily for what you say about my book; but you will be greatly disappointed; it will be grievously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service than collocating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of species. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas. My only hope is that I certainly see very many difficulties of gigantic stature."Problem is, this quote is a classic quote mine (#2.2), and Boone is too fu*%ing stupid to do real research YET AGAIN! This letter was written before the Origin of the Species was even published! All of his correspondence with Bentham was on the breeding of plants. Stupid bastards did it again.**
Pat Boone breathlessly repeats the old "Darwin recanted on his deathbed" canard in the latest WingNutDaily. Are we surprised? Even other creationists admit this is a fraudulent story, and have the lie included in their "arguments not to use" list (the very first one on the list, in fact), but here we have WingNutDaily's complete lack of integrity shining through. Any wingnuts out there who claim this paper has one ounce of journalistic worth are self-deluded morons.
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