Charles Darwin – is he ‘the man who killed God1’?
   
 

                               
             "The point to make about Darwin's theory of evolution is that it is no longer a theory, but a fact. No serious scientist would deny the fact that evolution has occurred, just as he would not deny the fact that the earth goes around the sun.

Sir John Huxley, humanist and evolutionary scientist  
             (1887 – 1975) 

 

     

       

  Today evolution2 is taught in schools as a fact, it is presumed to be true in natural history museums displays, and TV programmes abound that popularise this idea.
Just how true is it?
 
Sir John Huxley with an elephant's skull
Charles Darwin (pictured left) spent forty years of his life in his home just a few hundred yards from Downe Baptist Church. Today this house is a popular museum to him and his theory.