great inroads into Christian thinking and became the mainspring of Enlightenment faith in its rejection of the God of Scripture. Classical liberalism is based on this Enlightenment faith, as is modern libertarianism and conservatism. Nature has its own inherent processes and laws and controls. Planning was thus transferred from God to nature. Darwinism destroyed this faith in nature. The process of nature was now portrayed not as a perfect working of law, but as a blind, unconscious energy working