"The twentieth century would be incomprehensible
without the Darwinian revolution. The social and political
currents which have swept the world in the past eighty
years would have been impossible without its intellectual
sanction. It is ironic to recall that it was the increasingly
secular outlook in the nineteenth century which initially
eased the way for the acceptance of evolution, while
today it is perhaps the Darwinian view of nature more
than any other that is responsible for the agnostic and
skeptical outlook of the twentieth century. What was once
a deduction from materialism has today become its foundation."—*
Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis
(1988), p. 358.

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