148 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



Design in nature, especially in the department 

 of living organisms, has ever been appealed to 

 by those who desire to prove that the world is 

 not self-evolved, but the work of an intelligent 

 Creator." (p. 211) On page 175, he refers to 

 those who ridicule Darwin, and yet are so far 

 under the influence of the spirit of the age as 

 to deny miracles or the intervention of the Cre- 

 ator in the course of nature, and says : " Very 

 well ; how do they account for the origin of 

 man, and in general the development of the 

 organic out of the inorganic ? Would they as- 

 sume that the original man as such, no matter 

 how rough and unformed, but still a man, 

 sprang immediately out of the inorganic, out 

 of the sea or the slime of the Nile ? They 

 would hardly venture to say that ; then they 

 must know that there is only the choice be- 

 tween miracle, the divine hand of the Creator, 

 and Darwin." What an alternative ; the Cre- 

 ator or Darwin ! In this, however, Strauss is 

 right. To banish design from nature, as is done 

 by Darwin's theory, is, in the language (5f the 

 Rev, Walter Mitchell, virtually " to dethrone 

 the Creator." 



Ludwig Weis, M. D., of Darmstadt, says it 

 is at present " the mode " in Germany (and 



