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biassed" judgment. His testimony is gladly 

 quoted here as "above suspicion." 



We began with blaming the materialistic evo- 

 lutionist for an abyssmal lack of humor, particu- 

 larly when from his theory of materialistic evo- 

 lution he would draw, with unquestionable assur- 

 ance, the far-fetched conclusion of the non-ex- 

 istence of a Creator God. The nature of the 

 certainty possessed in the entire field of evolution- 

 ary lore was perhaps never better set forth than 

 by a writer in the London Times, who thus pic- 

 tured the situation towards the opening of the 

 twentieth century: 



No one possessed of a sense of humor can contemplate with- 

 out amusement the battle of evolution, encrimsoned (dialecti- 

 cally speaking) with the gore of innumerable combatants, en- 

 cumbered with corpses of the (dialectically) slain and re- 

 sounding with the cries of the living, as they hustle together in 

 the fray. Here are zoologists, embryologists, botanists, morphol- 

 ogists, biometricians, anthropologists, sociologists, persons 

 with banners and persons without; Darwinians and neo-Dar- 

 winians, (what a name!), Lamarckians and neo-Lamarckians, 

 Galtonians, Haeckelians, Weismannians, de Vriesians, Mendel- 

 ians, Hertwigians, and many more whom it would be tedious 

 to enumerate. Never was seen such a melee! The humor of 

 it is that they all claim to represent "Science," the serene, the 

 majestic, the absolutely sure, the undivided and immutable, the 

 one and only vice-gerent of Truth, her other self. Not their's 

 the weakness of the theologians or the metaphysicians, who 

 stumble about in uncertainty, obscurity, and ignorance, with 

 their baseless assumptions, flimsy hypotheses, logical fallaciei, 

 interminable dissensions, and all the other marks of in- 

 feriority on which the voteries of science pour ceaseless scorn. 

 Yet it would puzzle them to point to a theological battlefield 

 exhibiting more uncertainty, obscurity, dissension, assumption 



