What is Darwinism

Charles Hodge — New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Company; London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874, from CCEL.

Hodge’s answer to the question in his title: not evolution as such, but natural selection as Darwin meant it — the exclusion of design from nature. “What is Darwinism? It is Atheism.”

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Contents (8)

1. Importance of the Question
2. Mr. Darwin’s Theory
3. Natural Selection
4. The Sense in Which Mr. Darwin Uses the Word Natural
5. Darwinism Excludes Teleology
6. Testimony of the Advocates of the Theory
7. The Opponents of Darwinism
8. Relation of Darwinism to Religion