T.H.Huxley was quite the double-talker. Even S.J.Gould says so (I may hunt for the quote later).

From your link:
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah
From my link & quotebox in post #253276, above
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Within ten years of the publication of the Origin, Huxley was hailing Darwin as a high priest. In a lightning sketch on the back of a letter, he once depicted Darwin as a new Pope, archbishop of the `church scientific,’ being venerated by a visiting naturalist. At the same time many radicals saw Darwin as the antithesis of religion.
Politicians... what can you expect?

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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