Poor Darwin, Now He Had Autism!

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I’m actually beginning to feel sorry for poor Charles Darwin after reading this story! Is their no shame among evolutionists capitalizing on making money off Darwin’s name?

Now a psychiatrist claims Darwin had Asperger’s syndrome.   This is also another example of the intellectual bankruptcy of psychology and psychiatry.

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Darwin was autistic, says leading psychiatrist
by Rebecca Smith (Medical Editor)
The Daily Telegraph (United Kingdom), p. 7.
February 18, 2009

CHARLES Darwin probably had a form of autism called Asperger’s syndrome, which is related to creativity and originality, a leading psychiatrist claimed today.

Darwin, the author of On the Origin of Species, which sets out the theory of natural selection, had an extraordinary attention to detail but had difficulties with social interaction, according to Prof Michael Fitzgerald, of Dublin’s Trinity College.

Prof Fitzgerald believes that Darwin, who was born on Feb 12 200 years ago, was suffering from a behavioural disorder. Today, he will tell the annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Academic Psychiatry that Darwin was probably suffering from Asperger’s syndrome.      

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