THE OEIGIN OF MAN 39 



Darwin rightly decided to suspend his doctrine, even 

 at the risk of impairing the race. But some of his 

 followers are more hardened. A few years ago I read 

 a book in which the author defended the use of alcohol 

 on the ground that it rendered a service to society by 

 killing off the degenerates. And this argument was 

 advanced by a scientist in the fall of 1920 at a congress 

 against alcohol. 



The language which I have quoted proves that Dar- 

 winism is directly antagonistic to Christianity, which 

 boasts of its eleemosynary institutions and of the care 

 it bestows on the weak and the helpless. Darwin, by 

 putting man on a brute basis and ignoring spiri- 

 tual values, attacks the very foundations of Chris- 

 tianity. 



Those who accept Darwin's views are in the habit of 

 saying that it need not lessen their reverence for God 

 to believe that the Creator fashioned a germ of life and 

 endowed it with power to develop into what we sec to- 

 day. It is true that a God who could make man as he 

 is, could have made him by the long-drawn-out process 

 suggested by Darwin. To do either would require in- 

 finite power, beyond the ability of man to compre- 

 hend. But what is the natural tendency of Darwin's 

 doctrine ? 



Will man's attitude toward Darwin's God be the 

 same as it would be toward the God of Moses? Will 

 the believer in Darwin's God be as conscious of God's 

 presence in his daily life? Will he be as sensitive to 

 God's will and as anxious to find out what God wants 

 him to do ? 



