2 Peter 3:3
"David Strauss (1846), a German Biblical critic, admitted that Darwin's theory was irresistible to those who thirsted after "truth and freedom".
In his The Old Faith and the New (1873), he expressed the feelings of those not able to accept supernatural events, fairly typically as follows:
"Vainly did we philosophers and critical theologians over and over again decree the extermination of miracles; our ineffectual sentence died away, because we could neither dispense with miraculous agency, nor point to any natural force able to supply it, where it had hitherto seemed most indispensable. Darwin had demonstrated this force, this process of nature; he has opened the door by which a happier coming race will cast out miracles, never to return. Everyone who knows what miracles imply will praise him, in consequence, as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race (Strauss 1873, 205)."
The recognition of "what miracles imply" is two great fears:
--the fear of the arbitrary interference of God in the affairs of men
--and the fear of accountability after death.
*Darwin and evolutionary materialism had emancipated man from the first, if not both, of these fears."
MindsOfMen
--the fear of the arbitrary interference of God in the affairs of men
--and the fear of accountability after death.
*Darwin and evolutionary materialism had emancipated man from the first, if not both, of these fears."
MindsOfMen
