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Newt Gingrich

2007-04-01T00:13:53Z

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[[Image:Newtgingrich.jpg|200px|right|]]
'''Newt Gingrich''' (born June 17, 1943) is a [[conservative]] politician. Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Widely considered a mastermind of the Republican revolution that swept [[Congress]] in the 1994 elections, the well-known architect of the “[[Contract with America]]” [http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=59] that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years.

Gingrich remains very popular among many conservatives which is very odd considering his self acknowledged adultery. duri8ng extra-marital affairs which has exposed him as a hypocrite. He has repeatedly placed near the top of Republican presidential polls recently, even though he has not formed a campaign committee.

Under his leadership, Congress passed [[welfare reform]], passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition, the Congress restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan [[9/11 Commission]].

Gingrich's congressional career ended in 1998 when he abruptly resigned from Congress after poor showings from Republicans in elections and after being reprimanded by the House ethics panel over charges that he used tax-exempt funding to advance his political goals. He was later cleared of any wrongdoing.[http://www.salon.com/news/letters/2006/01/11/gingrich/index.html]
Newt Gingrich has publicly admitted to having been engaged in an extra-marital sexual relationship during the period he was pushing for Clinton's impeachment. ""The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder [[James Dobson]]. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards." Gingrich argued in the interview, however, that he should not be viewed as a hypocrite for pursuing Clinton's infidelity. "''The President of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge''," the former Georgia congressman said of Clinton's 1998 House impeachment on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. "I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being, as a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."
[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597666,00.html?cnn=yes]

== Speakership ==
*All ten items in the Contract With America were brought to a vote in the U.S. House in the first 100 days (the promise was to bring them to a vote). Nine of the ten items passed the House. The sole exception was term limits which received a plurality but required a two-thirds majority as a Constitutional Amendment.
*Committee Chairmen were term-limited as was the Speakership.
*The Legislative branch was cut including the Speaker's office. Also reduced were committee sizes. Unnecessary perks like the House barbershop, shoeshine and ice service were eliminated.
*The Congress was forced to live under the same laws as the rest of the land - OSHA, disabilities, workplace laws, members, staff etc.
*A big six accounting firm audited the U.S. House's finances for the first time in history.
*The Budget was balanced for the first time in a generation. When Time Magazine named Gingrich their Man of the Year in 1995, they said that because of Newt a balanced budget was no longer a question of if, but when.
*Taxes were cut for the first time in 17 years. Included were a cut in the capital gains tax, a $500 per child tax credit and new tax credits for tuition to college and voc-tech schools. The cap gains tax actually ended being scored as a revenue increase, a shift in tax policy debate due to Gingrich's success.
*Military spending increased for the first time in over 10 years including funding for a national missile defense.
*The line-item veto passed and was signed into law.
*Six of the bills were signed into law by the President. (In 1996, [[President Clinton]] pointed to 13 seperate reforms that were contained within the Contract with America at the Democratic National Convention.[http://www.answers.com/topic/acceptance-speech-to-1996-democratic-convention])
*More women were appointed to leadership positions in the House than anytime in history.
*Increased funding for the Violence Against Women Act by 700%.
*[[Megan's Law]] was passed. [http://www.registeredoffenderslist.org/national-alert/?engine=adwords!3475&keyword=%2Amegan%27s+law%2A&match_type=&gclid=CKC_9fSEi4sCFSMhYQodWTGRHQ][http://www.klaaskids.org/pg-legmeg.htm]
[http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=31]

== Post Congressional Activities ==
*Started the Center for Health Transformation, January 2003. [http://www.healthtransformation.net/about/History/]

== Quotes ==
*“It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read”
*If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".”
*“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”
*“All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves.”
*“Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”
[http://thinkexist.com/quotes/newt_gingrich/]
== Writings ==

As an author, Gingrich has published nine books including the best sellers, ''Contract with America'' and ''To Renew America'' and his most recent book, ''Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America''. In June 2005, ''Never Call Retreat'' concluded Newt's series of active history studies in the lessons of warfare based on a fictional account of the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] and its aftermath. And in ''Saving Lives & Saving Money'', Gingrich demonstrates how to transform health and healthcare into a 21st century system. [http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=71][http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=blended&field-keywords=newt%20gingrich%20books&results-process=default&dispatch=search/ref=pd_sl_aw_tops-1_blended_28026792_1&results-process=default]
== Personal Life ==

*In 1962, Gingrich married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old; she was seven years his senior at 26 years old. They had two daughters together. Gingrich divorced Jackie Battley in 1980.
*Gingrich married Marianne Ginther in late 1981. Gingrich, who frequently campaigned on family values issues, divorced his second wife, Marianne, in 2000 after his attorneys acknowledged Gingrich's relationship with his current wife, Callista Bisek, a former congressional aide more than 20 years younger than he is.
*By August 2000, Gingrich married Bisek.
*The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

[[Category:Political people|Gingrich, Newt]]

John Howard

2007-04-01T00:08:21Z

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{{stub}}'''John Howard''' is the current Prime Minister of [[Australia]]. He is the leader of the ''Liberal Party of Australia''. He has been Prime Minister since the Liberal Party won a majority in the House of Representatives at the general election in 1996, succeeding [[Paul Keating]].

He is married to Jeanette Howard.

==Recent political controversies==
The resignation of Santo Santoro as Minister of Ageing following his public admission of share trading and breach of the Ministerial Code of Conduct has resulted in much adverse publicity on John Howard's leadership. The resignation was particularly upsetting for John Howard as the previous week he had publically supported the formoer Minister when he had admitted to one breach. The subsequent public humiliation of Mr Santoro a week later when he subddenly "remembered" a further 72 breaches lead to the removal of support from the Prime Minister. Bob Quinn, the former leader of the opposition in the Queensland State Parliament is the current front-runner for the Senate seat vacated by the sudden resignation of Mr Santoro.

The David Hicks affair continues to dog Mr Howard who hopes the recent conviction of David Hicks as a result of a plea bargain with US military prosecutors will relieve the adverse media commentary.

The popularity of Mt Howard is now at almost an alltime low and it is widely believed he will be comprehensively defeated by Kevin Rudd at General Elections which must be called before the end of 2007. However a widely anticipated leadership challenge by the Deputy Prime Minister, Peter Costello make help rejunvenate the chances of the ruling Liberal Party and reverse its tilt to extreme right policies during the Howard Era.

Newt Gingrich

2007-03-21T14:43:51Z

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[[Image:Gingrich.jpg|right|Newt Gingrich.]]
Newt Gingrich (born 6/17/1943) is a conservative politician. Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives, and is generally credited with being the mastermind of the morality-based Republican Revolution of 1994. Gingrich's accomplishments include a number of showdowns with [[President]] [[William Jefferson Clinton|Bill Clinton.]]

In 1997 a strong majority of Americans believed Gingrich should have been replaced as Speaker of the House, and he held an all-time low job approval rating of 28%.[http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/04/18/poll/(1)]. Gingrich was forced out of the Republican leadership as a result of the poor Republican performance in the 1998 election, the only mid-term election in a president's second term in the last 60 years where the opposition party failed to gain seats until 2006.

The conservative politician is now thought to be positioning himself for the 2008 presidential race.

Newt Gingrich has publicly admitted to having been engaged in an extra-marital sexual relationship during the period he was pushing for Clinton's impeachment. For this he has been widely labelled a hypocrite.

== Personal Life ==

In 1962, Gingrich married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old; she was seven years his senior at 26 years old. They had two daughters together.

Gingrich divorced Jackie Battley in 1980. Battley has charged that Gingrich discussed the terms of their divorce settlement while she was in the hospital after cancer surgery. According to L.H. Carter, his campaign treasurer, Newt said of Battley: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." He refused to pay alimony or child support.

Gingrich married Marianne Ginther in late 1981. Marianne was quoted in a 1995 article in Vanity Fair as saying: "I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be."They divorced in 1999, the same year Gingrich had an extramarital affair with a then 33-year old member of his Congressional staff, Callista Bisek. This happened during the same time Newt Gingrich was condemning President Bill Clinton for his affair with a staffer Monica Levinsky. Newt Gingrich refused to discuss the affair until he admitted it in March, 2007. According to several newspaper editorials, the electability of Gingrich for president is more than questionable, especially on a Republican party ticket — with a party that emphasizes family values and Christianity as some of their strongest assets.

In August 2000, Gingrich married Bisek. Gingrich resides in Virginia with Bisek, who appears with him on the back cover of his book "Winning the Future".

The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

[[Category:Political people|Gingrich, Newt]]

User talk:Godlives

2007-03-21T14:36:09Z

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While the David Hicks item is true, they'll delete it since it' source to wikipedia. Source it to a news org and it should be fine. [[User:Cracker|Cracker]][[User_Talk:Cracker|talk]] 07:27, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

Thanks for the tip. I have only just stumbled across this site and am absolutely flabbergasted. They criticise Wikipedia but on that site if there is a mistake it can be corrected. On this site, many important pages are just locked so the obvious mistakes cannot be corrected. [[User:Godlives|Godlives]] 07:32, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

==Yup==
Look at [[Examples of Bias in Wikipedia| This]] as compared to [[Examples of Bias in Conservapedia| This!]] [[User:Cracker|Cracker]][[User_Talk:Cracker|talk]] 07:38, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

==Try this==
I saw that. I have checked through quite a few 'articles' now on topics I am somewhat familiar with and I have noticed many which while inaccurate are being posted by people who are sending up the site, aqnd some which are genuinely funny. I presume the sysops don't know enough to correct these articles and may even believe they are accurate. It seems that a sites as biased as this will never generate the respect necessary to attract sufficient numbers of quality contributors. Try this to get a relevant page started: [[Major bias in conservapedia]] [[User:Godlives|Godlives]] 07:43, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

Well, I guess it was fun while it lasted. they'll likely BAN you for such subversiveness.[[User:Cracker|Cracker]][[User_Talk:Cracker|talk]] 07:50, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

:They ban people for far less, so it seems like Godlives isn't going to live very long.

==John Howard==

Hey man. I read with interest your article on John Howard. Very interesting, good read :-)
Inspired, i've started one on [[Kim Beazley]] - because i don't think people here know enough about the australian presidency. [[User:Babygotbook|Babygotbook]] 09:22, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

:Very interesting. What about all the previous Presidents? Someone will have to add them. By the way: The entry for NZ is enlightening and well worth a read. [[User:Godlives|Godlives]] 10:36, 21 March 2007 (EDT)

Natural selection

2007-03-21T01:35:59Z

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"Natural selection" is the mechanism by which biological complexity and adaptation arises. It was first proposed by [[Charles Darwin]].

Darwin pointed out that organisms with favorable traits are more likely to survive and reproduce than those lacking those traits or possessing unfavorable traits. Over time this mechanism might allow those favorable traits which are inheritable to become more common.

==References==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_selection Natural selection]
*[http://www.pandasthumb.org/] about natural selection

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2007-03-19T12:03:16Z

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was born in Russian in 1918. He grew up a dedicated [[communist]] and studied science, history, and literature. He also was a teacher for a short period. When the [[Nazis]] invaded in 1941, he entered the army. From his hard work he rose to the rank of captain and won medals twice for his service. In February of 1945, he was arrested by the Soviet secret police for a passage in his private letter that criticized the Soviet dictator [[Stalin]]. Solzhenitsyn spent three years in prison and five in the Communists labor camps. He was released after Satin's death and the returned to his teaching. Solzhenitsyn began to write about his horrific experiences in the labor camps and the oppression of Communism. Of course the Communists did not have free press, but in the late 1950s to the early 1600s there was a period of openness. This period was only used to improve relations with the West. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovic" was published in 1962. This was about the daily life of a labor camp worker in the Soviet Union. Other works followed and Solzhenitsyn fame became international. Once the openness period ended the Soviet Union could not safely dipose the famous writer. He was exiled from the Soviet Union and still remained a outspoken critic of the Communism. Solzhenitsyn later won the Nobel prize in literature.
[[Category:Biographies]]
[[Category:Nobel laureates in Literature]]

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2007-03-19T11:55:31Z

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) served on the United States Supreme Court for over 30 years and is an icon in American law schools. He is known for his elegant writing style and for dissenting from key decisions decades before the entire Court moved to his side of those issues. For example, Holmes dissented from [[Lochner doctrine]] as established ''Lochner v. New York'' (1905), in which the Supreme Court invalidated an economic regulation by the state of New York. Decades later the Supreme Court came to agree with Holmes' side of the case.

But critics of Justice Holmes observe that although he was highly moral in his youth, fighting against slavery in the Civil War, he became increasingly amoral and utilitarian as a justice. They criticize Justice Holmes when he upheld the forced sterilization of a young woman on the grounds that she had a low IQ. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Justice Holmes' bellowed in his harshly utilitarian style in ''[[Buck v. Bell]]'', 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Holmes was a believer in Darwinism and sought to apply it to the law and to life, as urged by [[social Darwinism]].

After editing the ''American Law Review'' early in his career, he wrote ''The Common-Law'' in 1881. The following year he became a professor of law at Harvard, and two decades later he was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1899. In 1902 President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] appointed him to the [[United States Supreme Court]] in 1902, where he served until the age of 90, when his colleagues suggested his resign. He died a few years later.

Holmes's utilitarian judicial philosophy is best summed by his famous quote that "The life of the law has not been logic, but experience." His own migration away from the uninformed Christianity of his youth can be seen in his advice as an old man to the younger generation: "Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God." However such a statement may merely have been made to clarify a long running rumor of Holmes's omnipotence.

Although Justice Holmes retains an almost saint-like reverence in American law schools, there are actually few judges or law professors who follow his legal philosophy today. An example of a utilitarian judge today would be [[Judge Richard Posner]] of the [[Seventh Circuit|Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals]], who wrote a book in tribute of Justice Holmes.

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User talk:Godlives

2007-03-19T11:43:52Z

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Talk:John Howard

2007-03-19T11:38:29Z

Godlives: New page: This article is about as accurate as the one on evolution but at least this one is genuinely funny. ~~~~

This article is about as accurate as the one on evolution but at least this one is genuinely funny. [[User:Godlives|Godlives]] 07:38, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

John Howard

2007-03-19T11:37:18Z

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'''John Howard''' is the current prime minister of Australia, which is a secular country 14000 miles west of the United States. He is a member of the Labor Party and was elected in 1990 after defeating Gough Whitlam of the Liberal Party by a small margin. John Howard is a devout Catholic who is noted for wearing large crosses in parliament. He was born on 30th of April 1945 in the outback town of Bankstown NSW the seventh and youngest child of Peter and Rose Howard. He was educated at Bankstown primary school and then attended Concord high school for his secondary education. Upon graduation from School Howard went to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) where he received his bachelor of sociology. During his time and UNSW Howard became heavily involved in a student group who dedicated their free time on campus discussing Marx. Upon leaving university Howard joined the Unions where he used his knowledge of the political system to demand better conditions for workers. He was heavily opposed to the IR laws introduced by then Australian Prime minister John Curtin in 1966.

John Howard's early political career started in 1967 when he joined the ACP (Australian Communist Party). He rose quickly through the ranks, attending anti-government protests and rallies. In 1960 he engineered a coalition between the local anarchist/communist/socialist/unionist groups, to lobby the government, and stage large disruptive protests. He continued this anti-authoritarian stance, until in 1974 when he met his mentor Peter Garret, a musician and activist, whose mild ways, swayed John towards the center of politics and towards the labour party. John Howard joined the labour party in 1976 and was elected leader in 1985.

Howard currently resides in Sydney with his wife Grace and his three children Ken, Benjamin, and Linda and their two pet kangaroos Kylie and Dannii

User talk:Godlives

2007-03-19T11:32:03Z

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Natural selection

2007-03-19T11:26:33Z

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Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

2007-03-19T11:24:05Z

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The '''Guantanamo Bay detention camp''' is a prison of the [[United States of America]] in [[Cuba]]. In this prison, the people being held are accused by the US government of [[terrorism]]. The [[liberal]] organization Center for Constitutional Rights is organizing attorneys to file habeas corpus petitions in the Washington, D.C., federal court on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=pQOvjcVXXK&Content=406]

Due to security concerns the media has not been given access to the detention center, and the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] adminstration has said that interrogations are vital tools for winning the [[War on Terror]]{{fact}}. Some human rights groups and other activists claim the US has practiced [[torture]], such as cold-hot shock rooms, electrical shocks, simulated drowning, food and water deprivation, chaining, forced walking on broken glass and barbed wire, and psychological torture.[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-reallives-eng] As torture is illegal in the US and in nearly all other nations in the world, the camp is critisized by governments around the world.

The Australian [[David Hicks]] has been held in the camp for over five years without ever being brought to trial, and only very recently, have charges been laid.

==References==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks David Hicks]

Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

2007-03-19T11:22:18Z

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The '''Guantanamo Bay detention camp''' is a prison of the [[United States of America]] in [[Cuba]]. In this prison, the people being held are accused by the US government of [[terrorism]]. The [[liberal]] organization Center for Constitutional Rights is organizing attorneys to file habeas corpus petitions in the Washington, D.C., federal court on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. [http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=pQOvjcVXXK&Content=406]

Due to security concerns the media has not been given access to the detention center, and the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] adminstration has said that interrogations are vital tools for winning the [[War on Terror]]{{fact}}. Some human rights groups and other activists claim the US has practiced [[torture]], such as cold-hot shock rooms, electrical shocks, simulated drowning, food and water deprivation, chaining, forced walking on broken glass and barbed wire, and psychological torture.[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-reallives-eng] As torture is illegal in the US and in nearly all other nations in the world, the camp is critisized by governments around the world.

The Australian [[David Hicks]] has been held in the camp for several years without ever being brought to trial, and only very recently, have charges been laid.

Theory of Natural Selection

2007-03-19T11:19:05Z

Godlives: New page: Charles Darwin proposed that natural selection was the major mechanism responsible for the evolution of species.

[[Charles Darwin]] proposed that natural selection was the major mechanism responsible for [[The evolution of species|the evolution of species]].

Charles Darwin

2007-03-19T11:16:47Z

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[[Image:darwin.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Charles Darwin]]
Charles Darwin was a famous naturalist born in [[England]] to a Christian family on February 12, [[1809]]. He is best known for the [[Theory of Natural Selection|theory of natural selection]] which has since been generally accepted by biologists as the major mechanism for [[Theory of Evolution|evolution]]. The concept is that biological species develop over time via natural selection, branching from common origins. Outside of evolution in particular, he was regarded as an expert on barnacles as well as credited with discovering how coral atolls were formed.

==Early Career==

Darwin graduated tenth in his class at Christ's College in Cambridge (April, 1831). Although he intended on becoming a country parson and accepted the Bible as literally true, his intense interest in nature and discovering her secrets displaced his desire for a life as a clergyman. Darwin became the protege of the Reverend John Stevens Henslow, a professor of botany, and the Reverend Adam Sedgwick, a geologist. Henslow and Sedgwick encouraged Darwin to pursue his interests as a naturalist.

After touring the [[Galapagos Islands]] and studying the animals that lived there, Darwin developed an interest in the patterns of species distribution he had documented on the journey, as well as his realization that the economic theories of Thomas Malthus might have some application in the biological world. Researching this issue on a global scale, he slowly developed his theory of [[natural selection]] and finally published ''[[The Origin of Species]]'' in [[1859]]. Darwin had not originally meant to publish his work so early in his life, and in fact was quite fearful of what the reception might be, but was prompted to do so after being contacted by another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, who had developed similar ideas.

==Religious Beliefs==

Charles Darwin was a Christian up and through his famous five year voyage on the ''HMS Beagle''. But in the ensuing two years after returning to England (1836 to 1839; and in his late twenties) Darwin abandoned Christianity (1) and [sic] "had become a 'materialist' (more or less equivalent to an atheist" (2). About twenty years later in 1859 (at the age of fifty) Darwin published his famous book ''The Origin of Species''. "In order not to hurt the feelings of his friends and wife, Darwin often used deistic language in his publications" (3). According to Darwin, the "manifestly false history of the world" (4) as recorded in the Old Testament and New Testament miracles led him to reject Biblical veracity (5). Eminent Darwin biographer, Professor Janet Browne, sums up Darwin's views concerning religion: Darwin "mapped out a comparitive evolution of the religious sense, proposing that religious belief was ultimately nothing more than a primitive urge to bestow a cause on otherwise inexplicable natural events...In short, he made no secret of his view that he did not believe religion to have any rational foundation at all" (6). Yet, in spite of these views, when he died in 1882 at the age of seventy-three, Darwin was buried at Westminster Abbey next to Sir [[Isaac Newton]].

When investigating transmutation of species he knew that his naturalist friends thought this a bestial heresy undermining miraculous justifications for the social order, the kind of radical argument then being used by Dissenters and atheists to attack the Church of England's privileged position as the established church. Though Darwin wrote of religion as a tribal survival strategy, he still believed that God was the ultimate lawgiver. His belief dwindled, and with the death of his daughter Annie in 1851, Darwin finally lost all faith in Christianity. He continued to help the local church with parish work, but on Sundays would go for a walk while his family attended church. He now thought it better to look at pain and suffering as the result of general laws rather than direct intervention by God. When asked about his religious views, he wrote that he had never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God, and that generally "an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.". Ultimately he found that his discoveries conflicted with the belief in God as the one and only truth.

== Darwin's Illness ==
Charles Darwin's work set off a firestorm of controversy. And Darwin closely watched the public's response to his ideas while his allies [[Thomas Huxley]] and Joseph Hooker advocated his ideas within the scientific community. For example, Richard Milner wrote regarding Darwin in the 2002 issue of Scientific American in a article entitled [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000B62D6-7E63-1D7E-90FB809EC5880000# "Putting Darwin in his Place"], that Darwin ''"clipped, catalogued and indexed hundreds of offprints, about 350 reviews and 1,600 articles, as well as satires, parodies and Punch caricatures, with which he filled hefty scrapbooks..."'' And it appears as if the criticism of his work may have troubled Darwin. Milner in the aforementioned article, wrote that after [[Charles Lyell]] published a very weak endorsement of Darwin's Antiquity of Man, ''"Darwin's disappointment brought on 10 days of vomiting, faintness and stomach distress". Also when anatomist St. George Mivart made a strong attack on The Descent of Man, Milner wrote it "triggered two months of "giddiness" and inability to work..." ''

Charles Darwin's illness afflicted him for most of his working life. [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v17/i4/darwins_illness.asp] Most medical experts believe that [http://www.conservapedia.com/Darwin%27s_illness Darwin's illness was psychobiological or psychological in origin.]

== References ==
# Mayr, Ernst ''Growth of Biological Thought'' (1982:402).
# Mayr, Ernst ''One Long Argument'' (1991:75).
# Ibid. (1991:75).
# Barlow, Nora (editor) ''The Autobiography of Charles Darin'' (1958:85).
# Ibid. (1958:85-87).
# Browne, Janet ''Charles Darwin The Power of Place'' (2002:341)

[[Category:Biographies|Darwin, Charles]]