{"id":317,"date":"2008-09-17T14:16:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T03:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-11-10T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T03:10:24","slug":"church-of-england-apologizes-to-charles-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Church of England apologizes to Charles Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/2910447\/Charles-Darwin-to-receive-apology-from-the-Church-of-England-for-rejecting-evolution.html\">title<\/a> says it all. I guess a late apology is better than none. It&#8217;s worth noting that the opposition to Darwin&#8217;s theory by the Church of England generated one of the famous public debates in history, the 1860 Oxford evolution debate. As the Wikipedia entry notes, the most famous line was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The debate is best remembered today for a heated exchange in which Wilberforce supposedly asked Huxley whether it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey. Huxley is said to have replied that he would not be ashamed to have a monkey for his ancestor, but he would be ashamed to be connected with a man who used his great gifts to obscure the truth. The encounter is often known as the Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyway, regardless of how heartfelt this apology is, I doubt that it&#8217;s to change anyone&#8217;s mind on anything. The Church of England is already taking a lot of heat for its liberal stance on homosexuality and this apology won&#8217;t help it gain any more credibility with the Asian and African Anglican churches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the title says it all. I guess a late apology is better than none. It&#8217;s worth noting that the opposition to Darwin&#8217;s theory by the Church of England generated one of the famous public debates in history, the 1860 Oxford evolution debate. As the Wikipedia entry notes, the most famous line was: The debate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/?p=317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Church of England apologizes to Charles Darwin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[114,40,115],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-charles-darwin","tag-christianity","tag-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calltoreason.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}