The Satanic Illusion

The Satanic Illusion | Social Concerns

In "The Satanic Illusion," L. Sprague de Camp focuses on the conflict between believers in creationism and believers in evolution. Reginald Rivers, his partner Chandra Aiyar, and many other hunters using a time machine to travel to prehistoric eras have been bringing to the present a great deal of evidence supporting evolution as the explanation why animals and plants have achieved their present forms. This has disturbed supporters of creationism, some of whom have picketed the offices of Rivers and Aiyar: "The signs they carried denounced the Raja— that is, my partner Chandra Aiyar—and...

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