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...Darwin-hating Baptists of the early 20th century attacked modernism with simple faith and simple anathemas. The evangelical conservatives, by contrast, strive for a consistent, logical theology; their best-known writers-such as Editor Carl Henry of Christianity Today and Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary-challenge Barth, Bultmann and Tillich on the ground that these men propose as truth personal heresies and unwarranted distinctions that are incompatible with essential Biblical faith and Protestant tradition...
...sister Mona (Carol Lynley) tells him in the confessional that she has "slept with" a boy (John Saxon) whom she cannot marry because he is a Jew. Fermoyle never gives absolution, for he has long since despaired of converting the boy, who utters wisecracks like: "Hasn't Darwin kind of put the skids to GenesisT...
...that a more scientific poem about nightingales must await a change in the attitudes of the readers as well as the poet; it is a mistake, to believe that such an attitude change does not take place at all. The great advances of Galileo, Newton and Darwin have altered concepts not only in art but in religion and politics as well...
...Jamaica Committee, on the other hand, attracted scientists and philosophers. Charles Darwin was passionately involved, even though his own theory of the survival of the fittest had been bor rowed by the imperialists. Darwin was joined by John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Charles Lyell. Thomas Henry Huxley was moved to sardonic eloquence: "I daresay Eyre did all this with the best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas...
...production each issue is, and the prodigious-some might say ridiculous-expenditure of thought, money, and energy that goes into it ... Outwardly it seems the most conservative of all publications. Part of its attraction is its comfortable familiarity. But like men's clothes it is continually changing. Darwin taught us that evolution is the best kind of change to breed stayers." Since the Times has already proved its own inbred capacity for staying, we gratefully acknowledge its Darwinian tribute to our "powerful adaptability," its judgment that at age 40 we are "stimulatingly alive" and ready for a long future...