simply believed on authority that there is a God and that he has created man in his own image. Then Darwin looked at the facts dispassionately and found that man has come from the lower animals. In reality this story is based upon a myth. Darwin took for granted the just-there-ness of facts. He took for granted that the mind of man can deal with brute facts. Thus at the outset he excluded the Christian conception of God. What holds for Darwin holds for other scientists. It is commonly taken for granted