02 EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 



and fallacy than their own. For the plain truth is that, 

 though some agree in this and that, there is not a single 

 point in which all agree; battling for evolution, they have 

 torn it to pieces; nothing is left, nothing at all on their showing, 

 save a few fragments strewn about the arena. 7 







To the objection that this must surely be an 

 exaggeration, Sir Bertram Windle answers that 

 it is nothing more than a literary expression of 

 what in a formal scientific way must be gathered 

 from Kellogg's own summaries of our evolution 

 theories. And Kellogg cannot be actused, as he 

 adds, of anti-Darwinian bias, nor does he conceal 

 his contempt "for the poor deluded Catholic." 

 Such, therefore, is the haze and mist of uncer- 

 tainty that like a dense cloud cover almost the 

 entire subject of evolution. 



Why then this dishonesty in classroom and text- 

 book? Why this presentation of materialistic 

 evolution as an established and unquestioned fact, 

 when it was never even a credible theory, in the 

 sense that it was never based upon sufficient evi- 

 dence to make of it a scientific possibility? Why 

 the open regret expressed by certain noted scien- 

 tists, that after all evolution has not disproved 

 the existence of God as most certainly it has 

 not succeeded in doing? Is materialistic evolu- 

 tion merely a symptom of the disease, common 

 enough in scientific circles, which has quite cor- 



T Times, June 9, 1905. Quoted by Sir Bertram Windle in 

 tacts and Theories," pp. 94-95. 



