THE NOOSE OF DARWIN AND THE NECK OF ORTHODOXY.

This article focuses on the social and scientific aspects of Christianity. In the light of the subsequent half century of scientific research and religious readjustment, science herself being judge that the corpse of Christianity is not dangling from the noose of biologist Charles Darwin. It would be difficult to overstate Darwin's worth to man: he humbled a proud and pompous world and made all flesh kin. The consciousness that all living creatures are akin, that evolution is the law not only of politics and religion but also of life itself is perhaps mankind's longest step. While scientists agree that Darwin's theory is correct many of them assert that his reason for the theory is not correct and although he supplied the mechanism of life he did not supply its purpose. A believer in God, Darwin necessarily made use of God as the creator of life. After that one divine event however God apparently disappeared from the earth and its affairs and has not since reappeared. If in search of a natural for a divine purpose in the life process some biologists have made too heavy a draft upon human credulity, so in the opposite direction have the literalists who maintain that every word in the Bible is inspired.