id was right and even desirable because nature had decreed it be done for the survival of the human species. This would seem to be a thoroughly materialistic notion in which religion could play no possible part.
As Philip Appleman writes in the Introduction to Darwin's book, the "Darwinian revolution" transcends science: "It implies a basic change in ways of looking at all ideas, all phenomena.
. . . Nothing was sacrosanct" (Darwin 9). Those who used Darwin's theory used it, therefore, as the basis of truth itself. Those who attacked it did so either on the basis of char
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