“A giant of Old School Presbyterianism at Princeton, Charles Hodge, was one of the few Presbyterian controversialists to turn their guns on Darwinism prior to World War I. Hodge published his What is Darwinism? in 1874, three years after The Descent of Man was published, and argued that Darwin’s system could not be reconciled with biblical Christianity.
Most churchmen, however, took a far more prosaic attitude. In the early period, it must have appeared far from clear that Charles Darwin‘s theory of natural selection would come to be hegemonic among scientists, as refutations and alternate systems were still being proposed and debated. Then, when evolution became widely accepted, most churchmen were far less concerned with refuting it than they were with establishing schemes whereby Darwinism could be reconciled with Christianity. This was true even among prominent Old Schoolers at Princeton Theological Seminary such as Charles Hodge’s successors A. A. Hodge and B. B. Warfield who came to endorse the ideas now described as theistic evolution.” – From Wikipedia’s article on the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
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