Why did Darwin have a Christian burial? And is buried in Westminster Abbey.?
Realizing I really don’t need to weigh in on this and am therefore not seeking points: I believe Darwin was always a Christian. He had problems worrying about how ‘evolution’ would be accepted primarily by the Church of England which had been the source of much of his formal education. There are those sources that even go so far as to give Darwin the title “Reverend” which suggests Ordination in the Church of England. There was at least one colleague, working in similar isolation to Darwin, who congratulated him on (not the ‘discovery’ of evolution but) in publishing the work ‘Origin of Species’. The one I recall was from mainland Europe and feared persecution from the Roman Catholic Church should he have published his notes on studies in evolution. In Darwin’s day, just like today, the Church of England (Episcopal Church in U. S. A.) was not monolithic. There were those within the Church who would have had Darwin expelled for heresy. There were those who invited and welcomed one who d
