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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 

 "Darwinism" into an engine for the destruction 

 of Christian religion. Bateson, in a reference 

 to Mendelism, finds that: "It is not so certain 

 as we might like to think that the order of these 

 events is not predetermined" a clear case of 

 theophobia, while Weismann desperately clings to 

 Darwin's now hopeless theory of natural selec- 

 tion, just because: "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" 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 "Darwin and Modern Science." See Windle, "Facts and 

 Theories," pp. 24-27. 



