Charles Darwin on the UK £10 note?
people consider the UK as a Christian country and apparently Atheists are among the minority, if this is true then why is Darwin on the £10 note, according to Christians he was nothing more than a liar.
Also, if the queen is a Christian, why does she allow this?
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The vast majority of Christians have no problems with Darwin or evolution. They do have problems with the Bible literalists who give Christians a bad name. The Queen is most certainly Christian and she has no problems with Darwin. Christians do not consider Darwin to be a liar.
Lets just skip the Darwin thing OK! He's right; creationists are wrong! Game over!
However I do object to your assertion that UK atheists are a minority. The UK is only nominally a "christian" country when one considers those actively practicing the faith. Most britons see the inside of a church only through a coffin lid and then only because they have no say in the matter!
The sources you get your information from regarding the population's religious leanings are very inaccurate.Here in the UK,atheism far outweighs christianity in the general population.Any figures you are quoting come from polls taken where people are given only options to tick on a form and don't include atheist,or they say they are christian out of a sense of tradition.Walk into any public place over here such as a pub and ask how many people believe in Jesus or God and you will hear only the faint tolling of a bell and see tumbleweed.
This is far less of a theological question than it may seem. The truth is that within Europe we have no problem regarding the acceptance of evolution (even in strongly Catholic countries like Poland where I have lived for some years). It is only in the U.S. with its myriad little isolated, sectarian, fundamentalist churches which, combined with a poor educational system, has produced a population of which nearly 50% believe in the myth of the Biblical creation story.
Darwin was a great innovator in scientific thought and well deserves the honour of being on our notes.
I wouldn't call the UK a christian country. There are many non christians there. The probably outnumber the christians significantly
most people in the UK are nominally church of england, which means they are agnostic, deists, don't know don't care or atheist traditionalists. only a small minority are what you could call committed christians and most of them are liberal and, on the whole, accept evolution; as most people here do.
Yes, it is true he is on one of their bills. I am a Christian and I do not believe he was a liar. That indicates purposeful falsification, something which I do not think he did.
The queen really doesn't have much say in anything.