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...laws of natural selection as applied to U.S. automobile design make a fascinating Darwinian study: tailfins sprout timidly at first, grow into huge aerodynamic wonders and then recede; teeth and radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact...
There need be no conflict between science and religion, says British Biologist Julian Huxley, but there is a sharp conflict between science and Christian theology. "One is destined to replace the other," he argues, a century after the famed Darwinian tussle with religion in which his grandfather. Scientist T. H. Huxley, battled conspicuously on the opposite side of the angels...
Unique Man. In reply, the Rev. Dr. Mascall is prepared to accept the victory of the Darwinian theory of evolution. But he does not think the story ends there. Biologist Huxley, he says, has overlooked the significance of two "striking conclusions" of biology that are of great importance to theology. The first: man, as an intelligent being, is unique on earth. The second: "With the appearance of an intelligent being, evolution as generally understood . . . has virtually come to an end, or, to state the position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being...
Some 900 miles north and 1,800 miles west of the spot where the celebrated Scopes "Monkey Trial" shocked the world, and a full 35 years later, the state of Washington's supervisor of curriculum guides, John M. Howell, announced: "Now, of course, no one really believes the Darwinian theory ... If Darwinian evolution is true, then the Bible is untrue, and I prefer to hold by the Old Book rather than to accept a worthless theory...
...store knowledge and pass it on beyond individual memory." He has a moral sense, including a sense of responsibility. ("The evolutionary process is not moral - the word is simply irrelevant in that connection - but it has finally produced a moral animal.") To whom is man responsible? "The post-Darwinian answer seems fairly clear: man is respon sible to himself and for himself." Since he is not the darling of the gods, Simpson warns, man can save himself from evolutionary degeneration only if he himself "takes a hand in determining his own future evolution...