Editing David Brewster (section)

=== Opposition to evolution ===
Brewster's Christian beliefs stirred him to respond against the idea of the transmutation of species and the theory of evolution. His opinion was that "science and religion must be one since each dealt with Truth, which had only one and the same Author."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strathan |first1=Alexander |title=The Day of Rest in The Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought |date=1881 |publisher=American Book Exchange |location=New York |page=426 |edition=Vol 8 |url=https://archive.org/stream/librarymagazine13unkngoog#page/n426/search/Darwin |access-date=18 August 2018}}</ref> In 1845 he wrote a highly critical review of the evolutionist work ''[[Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation]]'', in the ''[[North British Review]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=John M. Lynch|title="Vestiges" and the Debate Before Darwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr6ZiGHAqHcC&pg=PA471|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-85506-862-9|pages=471|volume=1|date=January 2000}}. First published in ''[[North British Review]]''. vol 3 (August 1845, pp. 470–515)</ref> which he considered to be an insult to Christian revelation and a dangerous example of materialism.

In 1862, he responded to Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' and published the article ''[[s:The Facts and Fancies of Mr. Darwin|The Facts and Fancies of Mr Darwin]]'' in ''[[Good Words]]''. He stated that Darwin's book combined both "interesting facts and idle fancies" which made up a "dangerous and degrading speculation". He accepted adaptive changes, but he strongly opposed Darwin's statement about the ''primordial form'', which he considered an offensive idea to "both the naturalist and the Christian."<ref>Good Words (1862), Vol. 3; by Norman Macleod D. D. J.; Donald Macleod & Hartley Aspden. Alexander Strahan and Company. pp. 3–8</ref>