Atheists, did you know Charles Darwin got his cousin pregnant? [Spirituality & Religion]

You are, of course, a complete ignoramus. Charles Darwin MARRIED his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, and they had a wonderful marriage, with ten children, seven of whom lived to adulthood, which was a miracle in those days. The children themselves spawned a number of highly successful grandchildren.

First cousin marriage is quite normal, and entirely legal. The only slight risk is if it cascades down through multiple generations, and only then if there is a genetic defect. You are wholly misinformed.

Even if you were right - and you are totally wrong - when Charles Darwin married Emma, he had not formulated the basis for "On the origin of Species" so the consanguinity would not have bothered him.

Darwin was an agnostic, not an atheist. When he died at Down House (gorgeous museum now - you should visit it and learn) he had arranged a simple non-religious burial. But his admirers demanded a state funeral in Westminster Abbey, which the Dean reluctantly organised, on the basis that a christian state funeral was inappropriate for a proclaimed agnostic.

The idea that you demolish a deeply researched and highly proven theory by attacking the man is deplorable. but if you do want to descend to that level, (the gutter) , try and get a tiny portion of your argument based on fact.

I'm not even close to being an atheist, but Darwin married in 1839, when Gregor Mendel, "the father of modern genetics" was 17 years old.

By the 1880s, only 13 states had laws against cousins marrying and some states didn't pass such laws until the 1940s, more than 100 years after Darwin married his cousin.

Knowledge isn't retroactive.

(Edit: I know Charles Darwin didn't live in the United States. I just used that as a measurement of the knowledge about consanguinity.)

You do know what atheism is, don't you? I'll give you a hint, it doesn't mean believing in evolution, the big bang or any other specific scientific theory. There are theists who believe in evolution, does that make them muddled headed hypocrites? You obviously don't like atheists, but you should really do some reading on the subject before posing.

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First, not true.
[i]https://www.livescience.com/2226-incest-taboo-nature.html[/i]

Secondly, developing a theory of how life evolves on the planet has nothing to do with the personal choices a person makes.

Not all Atheists hail Charles Darwin man... Atheism is just not believing in god not being devout in Darwins theory of evolution

No but his wife is from the Wedgewood family - famous china and tablewhere -

And Abraham got his sister pregnant. So...?

you support trump too huh

Dude, WTF???

So? Most of the CATHOLIC kings and queens are inbred, true story.

You are misusing the term Theory