Customer Reviews

Darwin: Before and After (Mount Radford Reprints)

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Robert Edward David Clark was Lecturer in Chemistry at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology. He also wrote books such as The Universe: Plan or Accident, Scientific Rationalims & Christian Faith: With Particular Reference to the Writings of Prof. J B S Haldane & Dr J S Huxley, Science and Christianity - a Partnership, God Beyond Nature, etc.

Here are some quotations from this 1966 book:

"Thus the first all-embracing evolutionary theory presented to the public came, not from an atheist, from from a Christian (Robert Chambers' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and Other Evolutionary Writings). Nor was its rejection due to theology, but to the science of the day. These are facts which those who believe in the myth that theology has always been at war with science, might well bear in mind." (Pg. 49)
"It is of interest to note that, in all this, (Richard) Owen had not the slightest interest in supporting what he disdainfuly called 'literal scripturalism.' Neither, for that matter, had (Louis) Agassiz, Darwin's greatest opponent in America. Agassiz was not a religious man and never went to church." (Pg. 65)
"The concept of struggle also affected biological thought profoundly... (Scientists) spent whole lifetimes in the study of phenomena which seemed out of place in an intelligently planned world... Hardly anyone noticed that the study of ecology, or organisms in relation to their surroundings, was being neglected." (Pg. 97-98)
"Clearly no half measures are possible. Either we may condemn Darwin, together with all others who may have profited by the misery they have caused to others, or else we may judge people by their private lives alone and think charitably of all men. It will not do to pick and choose." (Pg. 120-121)