In this article, Straton attempts to persuade the religious public that the shift from teaching religion to teaching evolution in schools is an error. He says that "the question is whether taxpayers - the mothers and fathers of children - should be made to support false and materialistic religion, mainly evolution, in schools, while Christianity is excluded, and so denied to their children” (432). Straton does not believe that man is a "descendant of the slime and beasts of the jungle" (432), but that he is "a child of God ».”