ABSTRACT

Huxley, Julian Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator of organisms from the sphere of rational discussion.

Jones, F. Wood Only a fool could deny the revolutionary impact of Darwinism on the outlook of the nineteenth century, when-as one biologist put it-the educated public was faced with the alternative ‘for Darwin or against evolution’. But the narrow sectarianism of the neo-Darwinists of our own age is an altogether different matter; and in the not-too-distant future biologists may well wonder what kind of benightedness it was that held their elders in thrall.