Apologise to Charles Darwin?

Posted on September 17, 2008 
Filed under Opinion

Al MohlerA senior cleric of the Church of England wants his church to apologize to Charles Darwin in time for the observance of the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth next year. …

Dr. Brown’s apology, offered on the official Web site of the Church of England, and in his role as Director of Mission and Public Affairs, may be ‘pointless,’ but it certainly makes a point about the Church of England. As a matter of fact, it might go a long way toward explaining how a church that once formed the backbone of British life now holds the attention of less than five percent of British citizens on any given Sunday.

People come to church hungry for the Gospel and in order to fear God, not for an apology offered to a self-described enemy of the faith – who believed that faith in God is akin to a monkey’s fear of a snake.…

– Al Mohler on the proposed apology to Charles Darwin.