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philosophy, it is regarded as a savior by the ideologies, misguided
beliefs and false religions throughout the world that are based on a
materialist understanding of life. Although most people today have
not even read the book, many educational institutions regard it as the
basic foundation of modern thought. Jack Barzun describes the
importance of The Origin of Species in these words:
Clearly, both believers and unbelievers in Natural Selection agreed
that Darwinism had succeeded as an orthodoxy, as a rallying point
for innumerable, scientific, philosophical, and social movements.
Darwin had been the oracle and The Origin of Species the "fixed
point with which evolution moved the world." 60
While Darwin and his book continue to receive adulation, Henry
M. Morris, in his book The Long War Against God, shows how far
removed The Origin of Species is from science:
In fact, one can search the whole book in vain for any real scientific
evidences of evolution... No proof is given anywhere – no examples
are cited of new species known to have been produced by natural
selection, no transitional forms are shown, no evolutionary
mechanisms are documented.
Actually, the whole book is
most notable for its complete
lack of documentation. It is
all speculation, special
pleading, ad hoc
assumptions. None of the
Origin's evidences or
arguments have stood up
under modern critical
analysis, even by other
evolutionists. One can only
marvel that such a book could
have had so profound an
influence on the subsequent
history of human life and
thought. There is bound to be
In his book The Long War Against God,
something more here than
Henry Morris criticizes the evolutionists'
meets the eye! 61
misguided battle with religion.

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