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is to be expected that those who hold an evolutionary view of the development
of the human race would adopt the former of the above views. And it
should be pointed out that destructive, historical criticism of the Bible has endeavored
to reconstruct the Bible upon the assumptions of evolution. Believing that man
emerged from the brute world and progressed through various stages from animism
and fetishism to polytheism, and then to monotheism and finally to Christianity,
these critics find it necessary to redate the books of the Bible, simply because
they assume that it would have been impossible for man to have certain religious
ideas at so early a date. We are therefore told that the books of Moses could
not have been written by Moses but were composed at least a thousand years
later, etc.
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