So, even judging Him by our standards, it would be absurd not to credit the Almighty, if He exists, with a willingness to adapt to every changing circumstance, and every occasion on which He is thwarted by man’s disobedience. Were it otherwise, you could put the clock back; and you never can. His conduct and the changing nature of evolution seem to be remarkably similar, if not identical. It may be speculation whether God does, or does not, exist. But it is beginning to look like a speculation to which any sensible man can comfortably subscribe.
Viewing creation in this perspective, one might be tempted to think the myths and superstition that embraced religion in the past could be safely left behind. But there is a need for caution; it is true that action in the world of affairs demands confidence above all, but at the same time there is hardly any graver sin than for a man to believe himself virtuous. The Jacobins of the Terror and the September Massacres thought themselves virtuous; and no-one wants to imitate them. At least not unless he has in mind to tread the same path as they did. As Cromwell said to the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk, “I beseech you…think it possible you may be mistaken”. Someone who fancies he is infallible, is capable of falling into any error, of inflicting any tyranny, of being guilty of any betrayal. So there may be something to be said for subscribing still to the old myths, because with great beauty they teach humility. [It is not relevant to consider the situation of those who deliberately choose evil, at this stage.]
Expressing it in simple terms, you are not going to get people going to carol services in the days before Christmas, in order to praise the Creator for providing an ever changing evolutionary plan. They will go to praise Him for providing a Saviour; but not for providing an idea. So the whole point of trying to grasp the truth, even the relative truth, of an idea, such as the changing nature of evolution, is to have a more mature understanding of how priceless the provision of a Saviour was. The Saviour tried to give us himself; to share his godhead with us if he had it, and his immortality if he did not. And apart from a brief flowering of Islamic culture between 900AD and 1200AD, the entire flowering of modern science and technology, including the recovery of the art and science of warfare, has been in the civilization and culture of the Christian West. In other cultures, of course, there were people as intelligent as in the West; but for some inexplicable reason it did not happen there. The whole thing, the whole evolution of the modern mind, is due to the Saviour setting us free from the darkness and superstition of the world which he entered, and being willing to set our spirits free. And this modern mind is no mere fashion, because it is based on modern knowledge.