Anything which leads to struggle, and therefore to selection in struggle, is to be welcomed, since it opens the way to progress and the upward evolution of living organisms. The intellectuals among the Darwinists hotly deny this conclusion, although their theory leads patently and logically directly to it. It is noteworthy that many of our Western intellectuals have socialistic as well as Darwinistic views. Perhaps the two positions may be related. In this connection it is interesting to note the concern which evolutionists feel for any increase in man-made radiation.
Increased radiation means an increase in the mutation rate.
If this were the mechanism by which progressive evolution occurred and if the path of evolution is ultimately one of improvement then anything which would speed up the rate of mutation, such as radiation, would be regarded as favorable, but the fact of the matter is it is regarded as undesirable and very much unfavorable. If evolution is true, then there have been three billion years of suffering and death in the world of living things leading up to man. Billions of animals suffered and died, for no apparent reason. Multitudes even of species have died out. It does seem that, if God used evolution, He used the most wasteful, most cruel process, that He could possibly conceive by which to produce man.