Chapter II

	The Christian Faith and Modern Science
	The Darwinian Theory: inferences unfavourable and favourable to religion	56
	Evolution and the Copernican Revolution	60
I.	The Method of Evolution: the biological discussion	61
	State of opinion after fifty years of Darwinism	61
	Laws of Variation and Heredity	62
	Weismann’s theory of Germinal Selection	63
	Significance of the variety in opinions	65
II.	The Meaning of Evolution: the philosophical discussion	66
	1. Mechanism and Design	66
	In the organic world in general; the fitness of the environment	67
	In the organic world including man	70
	2. Preformation and Epigenesis	73
	Preformation and the infinite regress	74
	The Origin of Life: various theories	75
	The Origin of Man as viewed from different standpoints	78
	The Generatio Æquivoca	80
III.	Theism and Evolution	82
	The causal demand	82
	Theism and the ideas of Continuity and Progress	83
	Religion and scientific advance	85