150 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



to prove that the denial of design, which is 

 the " creative idea " of Darwinism, is the main 

 cause of its popularity and success. Professor 

 Owen, England's greatest naturalist, is a deri- 

 vationist. Derivation and evolution are con- 

 vertible terms. Both include the denial that 

 species are j^i'iniordial, or have each a dif- 

 ferent origin ; and both imply that one spe- 

 cies is formed out of another and simpler form. 

 Professor Owen, however, although a deriva- 

 tionist, or evolutionist, is a very strenuous anti- 

 Darwinian. He differs from Darwin as to two 



/ points. First, as to Natural Selection, or the 

 Survival of the Fittest. He says that is in- 

 consistent with facts and utterly insufficient to 

 account for the origin of species. He refers 

 the origin of species to an inherent tendency 

 to change impressed on them from the begin- 



^ ning. And second, he admits design. He 

 denies that the succession and origin of species 

 are due to chance, and expresses his belief 

 in the constant operation of creative power in 

 the formation of species from the varied de- 

 scendants of more generalized forms.-^ He 

 believes " that all living things have been pro- 

 duced by such law (of variation) in time, their 



1 The Fallacies of Darwinism, by C. R. Brec, M. D., p. 308. 



