Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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Library in New York has published a series of
books entitled
The Man and the Universe,
the fifth of
which hails Darwin’s book
Origin of Species
as an
epoch-making work.
‘Man has been making efforts for a long period to
trace his geneology. No other concept has received
as much religious opposition as that of Charles
Darwin’s natural selection theory. Neither has any
other theory gained as much scientific affirmation
as this one.’
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Another view expressed by a notable American
scholar in
The Meaning of Evolution,
(New York,
1951, p. 127) is that Darwin was one of the greatest
men in history, having made such a prominent
contribution to the development of human
knowledge. He gained this position because he
proved quite finally that organic evolution was a
fact and not a mere supposition set forth for the
purpose of scientific research.
A. E. Mander writes:
The theory of organic evolution that the
species and varieties of living things have
