Where are they now?
Learn whatever happened to your
favorite skeptic
This Month's Guest:
Charles Darwin
You probably have heard by now
of the rumor that when Charles
Darwin died he repented of his sins, gave his life to Jesus
Christ (the Son of God), and barely made it in (to heaven) by
the skin of his teeth.
This is false. He never converted.
In fact, he never really died.
Yes, Charles was very ill at
one time, but he quickly recovered. It was a case of swoon.
Shortly after recovery, and "moved"
by his near-death experience, Charles set out on a spiritual
journey - to India.
He caught the next trade ship
headed in that direction and would never return. But half way
there, a storm arose and the ship went down.
Before the ship went under, he
decided to have faith and walk on the water to the little island
in the the not-so-distant distance. But this failed, and since
Darwin couldn't swim, he went under faster than the ship did.
Luckily, Charles was fat enough
to float and he washed ashore some hours later. He lay motionless,
but he wasn't dead - it was another case of swoon.
He awoke later that evening to
the sound of natives dancing about him. They had built a fire
and concocted the "emergency medical technician" spirits
to aid in his recovery.
It worked. Feeling much better,
he decided to help out and add some wood to the fire. But the
heat of the fire drove out a snake and it bit him on the hand.
He fell down as dead, but it
was yet just another case of swoon.
It was nothing but a harmless
garden snake, but since Charles suffered from reptiliaphobia,
he passed out . The natives had had enough of this sissy and
took him to the owner of the island, Dr. Moreau.
The good doctor gave him some
concoction that not only helped revive him, but it made Charles
a new man! Dr. Moreau gave him a boat with supplies and quickly
escorted him off the island for some strange reason.
A month later Charles finally
made it to India, but he had lost a lot of weight. He sought
out learning from the wisest of people, and he, himself, grew
in wisdom and stature.
Charles learned many things,
but the most important was that not only were monkeys on equal
footing with man there, but actually monkeys are superior to
man and have run of the place.
It wasn't long before Darwin
was known as a great teacher and was himself very revered (but
still not as much as monkeys).
Charles never seemed to age any
more after ingesting that weird potion on the island of Dr. Moreau.
Interesting . . .
Anyway, he set out on another
journey - to America.
It is believed that Darwin is
a biology teacher at some remote rural high-school in Kansas.
It is also rumored that he hopes
to one day be labeled as the savior of the human race in which
people would debate whether he had ever been to India or not,
just
like Jesus.
Here, an emaciated Charles Darwin and Mahatma Gandhi
exchange views on the rising political turmoil of that time,
and also on the mating habits of the web-toed yellow-bellied
sap-sucker chicken-finch.
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