Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,.... Romans 1:22
"It appears that the ideological necessity of finding a strictly
materialist theory eventually came to trump those honest and open-minded objections voiced by the majority of reviewers of the Origin in the decade after its publication.
materialist theory eventually came to trump those honest and open-minded objections voiced by the majority of reviewers of the Origin in the decade after its publication.
--Intellectual integrity was sacrificed on
the altar of ideological commitment.
--Natural selection was thrust
forward aggressively like a form of profane crucifix to ward off the
danger thought to be posed by religion....
--Darwinism was beginning to
assume for some the function of an anti-religious apotopaic or magic
charm against supposed evil."
Neil Thomas, Taking Leave of Darwin (2021), p. 118-119