Didn't Darwin recant of his Theory of Evolution on his deathbed and embrace Christianity?
No, he didn't.
This story was invented by a certain Lady Hope, who was an evangelical Christian and shameless liar. Her account was denied by Darwin's own daughter, Henrietta, a devout Christian, who was with her father throughout his final illness.
For more on this subject, please see the Lady Hope Story (Talk Origins website).
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
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