Mr.Huxley says that "when he first read Mr.Darwin's book, what struck him most forcibly was the conviction that teleology, as commonly understood, had received its death blow at Mr.Darwin's hands."[10] "For the notion that every organism has been created as it is, and launched straight at a purpose, Mr.Darwin substitutes the conception of something which may fairly be termed a method of trial and error.

Organisms vary incessantly; of these variations the few meet with surrounding conditions which suit them and thrive; the many are unsuited and become extinguished.

* * * For the teleologist (the Christian) an organism exists, because it was made for the conditions in which it was found.
For the Darwinian an organism exists, because out of many of its kind it is the only one which has been able to persist in the conditions in which it was found.

* * * If we apprehend the spirit of the Origin of Species rightly, then nothing can be more entirely and absolutely opposed to teleology, as it is commonly understood, than the Darwinian theory."[11] Prof.Haeckel argues to the same purpose that Darwin's theory leads inevitably to Atheism and Materialism.

Dr.Buchner says of Darwin's theory, "It is the most thoroughly naturalistic that can be imagined, and far more atheistic than that of his decried predecessor, Lamarck." Carl Vogt also commends it because "It turns the Creator, and his occasional intervention in the revolution of the earth and in the production of species, without any hesitation out of doors, inasmuch as it does not leave the smallest room for the agency of such a Being.