What Scopes taught

Usage examples of evolutionism.

Mechanical Materialism, or Vulgar Evolutionism, which he considered to constitute a contradiction within the very fabric of the transcendent metaphysical Taoism of the past.

Thus one of the effects often attributed to the influence of biological evolutionism had in fact come about long before the establishment and general diffusion of that doctrine, and quite independently of it.

A flaccid, cartilaginous, unphilosophic evolutionism had full possession of the field for the moment, and claimed, as it were, to be the genuine representative of the young and vigorous biological creed, while he himself was in truth the real heir to all the honours of the situation.

And unfortunately doubt and caution are the last things commonly encouraged by the loose evolutionism of current culture.

That is where it differs also from the analogous vagueness of mere evolutionism, the idea of creatures constantly losing their shape.

I remember that once we deliberately went off for a walk in a park, chatting loudly so that adults would hear us, decorating our talk with all sorts of difficult scientific words whose meaning we did not know, such as transcendental, subjective, objective, synthetic, atomicity, parameter, evolutionism, precession of equinoxes, thermodynamic etc.

Hence it is, aside from any investigation of proofs of evolutionism, clear to the Christian student that there must be some fault either in reason or in observation that vitiates the whole theory.

Christianity and an Evolutionism of this sort, there is an irreconcilable conflict.

Evolution, a natural religion and a rational Evolutionism may yet harmoniously unite in a higher and more fruitful marriage.