Addendum to "Evolution and Man"

In my reading I recently came across these quotes from Charles Darwin which are case in point of the aforementioned post. As one will see, the creator of the Evolutionary Theory himself realized the implications of his proposal. "Even the subtitle for Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 1859 book Origin of Species reflects this particular aspect of "natural selection": The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" (ICR "Acts and Facts" article "One Birthday, Two Legacies by Beth Mull- http://www.icr.org/article/3653/).

"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit.... The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world" (ICR "Acts and Facts" article "One Birthday, Two Legacies by Beth Mull- Charles Darwin: Life and Letters, I, letter to W. Graham, July 3, 1881, 316; cited in Himmelfarb, G. 1959. Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution. London: Chatto and Windus, 343).

"He ranked certain races as being between "the Caucasian" and the baboon.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro sic or Australian and the gorilla" (ICR "Acts and Facts" article "One Birthday, Two Legacies by Beth Mull- Darwin C. 1901. The Descent of Man. London: John Murray, 241-242).

Again Evolution enslaves and degrades mankind but God and Scripture frees and elevates him to his rightful place as beings created in God's image. Thus they are to be treated and respected as such. In the latter faith all men are created equal.