The religion of Charles Darwin

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I previously mentioned the strange significance often placed on deathbed recantations, and specifically the (false) rumor that Darwin recanted and became a creationist on his deathbed. In this lovely post by Carl Zimmer, he dismantles the proposition (occasionally propounded both by creationists and by atheists) that the idea of evolution by natural selection was what destroyed Darwin's religious faith.