No monkey business

The Origin`85 undermined to some extent the belief that in His infinite wisdom God created the universe and placed man at the centre of His creation � "like a king in a palace stored with all to please him," to quote theologian F.B. Meyer.

The creationists condemned Darwin as the wickedest, the most contrived and the most fraudulent. "If the book be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madness; and man and woman are only better beasts", lamented one.

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