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dom processes and not, as was previously believed, from the cre-
ative activity of God. [Surely God is beyond that!] The acceptance of
this great claim ... was to play a decisive role in the secularization of
western society. ... It was because Darwinian theory broke man's link
with God and set him adrift in a cosmos without purpose or end that
its impact was so fundamental. No other intellectual revolution in
modern times ... so profoundly affected the way men viewed them-
selves and their place in the universe. 164

The loss or weakening of belief in God leads to a society's
spiritual collapse. People with no fear of God, who deny that they