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from post #14, George Templeton Strong on Darwin's new theory:

"Darwin cannot understand why Omnipotent Power and Wisdom should have created so many thousand various types of organic life, allied to each other by various complex relations and differing in points of detail for which we can assign no reason...
He wants to account for the wonderful magnificent harmonies and relations of the varied species of life that exist on earth by reducing the original agency of supernatural power in their creation to a minimum.
This feeling sticks out at page 483, where he asks triumphantly: Do people "really believe that... certain elemental atoms have been commanded suddenly to flash into living tissues?" (That passage is the keynote of the whole book.)

"I must say I find it just as easy to answer that question in the affirmative as to admit that certain elemental atoms of lime, silex, carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and so forth are daily and hourly "commanded to flash into" organic wood fibre, cellulose, parenchyma, and so on.
The latter miracle is being performed on the largest scale this minute whenever vegetation is in progress; the former seems to occur only at long intervals.
I can see no other distinction between them.
One is familiar to our senses, the other is proved by deduction.
They are a priori equally credible, or incredible, whichever Mr. Darwin pleases..."

If I understand Strong correctly, his opinion on Darwin is the same as mine -- Strong "gets" the scientific project is to reduce God's miracles to explainable "natural processes", such as plant photosynthesis, but Strong refuses to blind himself to God's Authorship by looking at such processes through the eyes of Godless science.

Again, if I understand correctly, Strong is not saying Darwin's theory is wrong, only that what Darwin might call a "natural process" is, to Strong, still a miracle of God.
In today's terms that is called "theistic evolutionism" and has long been the teaching of most mainline Christian churches.

It contrasts sharply with still surprisingly strong Biblical traditionalism which maintains that Darwin was entirely wrong, and for nefarious reasons which go to the core purpose of the long-term scientific enterprise -- to discover natural explanations for natural processes.
Traditionalists tell us that Darwin and other "historical science" researchers were all about destroying God's role in nature and are therefore responsible for every Godless evil the world has seen since Darwin's time!

And, bringing it all home to March of 1860, those evils begin with the trinitarian devils now first unleashed:

The trinitarian devils unleashed by 1860: Lincoln the "father", Darwin the "son", Marx the "unholy spirit", according to those most opposed to all three.***

***Our job here is to rescue at least Lincoln, if not also Darwin, from the claims of such historical revisionists.