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rectly been diagnosed as theophobia: a fear of 

 God that is neither a gift of the Holy Ghost nor 

 yet the beginning of wisdom? It would certainly 

 seem so. 



Evolution, in brief, is acknowledged to have 

 been a failure because it has not accomplished the 

 one thing it was intended to accomplish, not in 

 deed by Darwin, but by his lesser followers, and 

 by men who, like Haeckel, sought to convert 

 &quot;Darwinism&quot; into an engine for the destruction 

 of Christian religion. Bateson, in a reference 

 to Mendelism, finds that: &quot;It is not so certain 

 as we might like to think that the order of these 

 events is not predetermined&quot; a clear case of 

 theophobia, while Weismann desperately clings to 

 Darwin s now hopeless theory of natural selec 

 tion, just because: &quot;It is inconceivable that there 

 should be another capable of explaining the adap 

 tation of organisms without assuming the help 

 of a principle of design&quot; purely theophobia 

 again. 8 They will cling to any drifting straw, 

 provided only that they may forsooth escape the 

 acknowledgment of a Creator. 



It was therefore impossible for the men ulti 

 mately responsible for the deception of the masses 

 through their widely preached dogma of material 

 istic evolution, and so ultimately responsible also 

 for the tremendous social cataclysms and the 



8 &quot;Darwin and Modern Science.&quot; See Windle, &quot;Facts and 

 Theories,&quot; pp. 24-27. 



