How Was Darwin's Theory Accepted? The Curious History of a Secular Creation Myth, or, Darwin's Cultural Armor, pt. 2

In a post on July 7th I suggested that Darwinian evolution was a "scientific pip-squeak and a suit of cultural armor". Here I would like to examine exactly how that cultural armor was historically constructed. In so doing we will see the stuff of which Darwinism is truly made.

It was Phillip E. Johnson who made the astute observation that "Darwinist evolution is an imaginative story about who we are and where we came from, which is to say it is a creation myth." (Darwin on Trial, p...