[From "The Fruit of the Theory of Evolution"]

Mr. Tom Shackleford makes these kinds of statements from time to time:

We’re told their demonstrable lack of civilizational capacity is the result of all sorts of terms for racism[…]Sub-Saharan Africans have DNA from a pre-hominid ancestor not shared by any other race[…]

They are worth a close examination, mainly because they rest on the assumption that mankind is the product of an evolutionary process of some kind. But is that compatible with the Christianity that traditional Southerners say we want to govern all aspects of our society?[…]
Evolution conflicts with the idea of man made in the image and likeness of God[…]
Second, evolutionary theories place death in the world before the Fall. They make death a necessity for the progress of creatures to higher forms of life. But death came only after the Fall[…]
Third, the acceptance of the theory of evolution is driving Southerners and other peoples away from Christianity and towards scientific atheism and other infidel religions, thus undermining the foundations of Christian culture here and abroad. The excellent spiritual writer St. Theophan the Recluse (+1894) makes this point well:[…]
For Dixie to be faithful to Christ, she must reject evolution. If she rejects evolution, there can be no more speculation about sub-Saharan Africans being some kind of less-evolved form of humanity or some kind of stunted evolutionary cousin. They are just as human as Asians or Europeans, just as much the children of Adam and Eve as the rest of mankind

If the actions of some of the African folk in the South and other places is less than ideal, we must remember that it took several hundreds of years for Europeans to be transformed by the Grace of God into the relatively virtuous beings we have become. Let us not, therefore, judge prematurely this population of Africans