The
Rev. Dr. Coles, in the British and Foreign Evangelical Review,
declared that the God of evolution is not the Christian's God.
Burgon, Dean of Chichester, in a sermon preached before the
University of Oxford, pathetically warned the students that
"those who refuse to accept the history of the creation of our
first parents according to its obvious literal intention, and are
for substituting the modern dream of evolution in its place,
cause the entire scheme of man's salvation to collapse." Dr.
Pusey also came into the fray with most earnest appeals against
the new doctrine, and the Rev. Gavin Carlyle was perfervid on
the same side. The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
published a book by the Rev. Mr. Birks, in which the evolution
doctrine was declared to be "flatly opposed to the fundamental
doctrine of creation." Even the London Times admitted a review
stigmatizing Darwin's Descent of Man as an "utterly unsupported
hypothesis," full of "unsubstantiated premises, cursory
investigations, and disintegrating speculations," and Darwin
himself as "reckless and unscientific."[24]
[24] For the French theological oppostition to the Darwinian
theory, see Pozzy, La Terre at le Recit Biblique de la Creation,
1874, especially pp. 353, 363; also Felix Ducane, Etudes sur la
Transformisme, 1876, especially pp. 107 to 119.
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