H.G. Wells on Evolution in 1922

From H.G Wells' book A Short History of the World, published in 1922.

“This question of organic evolution, like the question of the age of the Earth, had in the past been the subject of much bitter controversy. There was a time when belief in organic evolution was for rather obscure reasons supposed to be incompatible with sound Christian, Jewish and Moslem doctrine. That time has past, and the men of the most orthodox Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and Mohammedan beliefs are now free to accept this newer and broader view of a common origin of all living things.”

If only that could be said with a stright face today.