A school on the South Side of Chicago was named after him, but has since been renamed the Emmett Louis Till Math & Science Academy.

He denied that our beliefs about the nature of the external world rest on causal or other inferences from perceptual ideas, but held that they are the direct accompaniments of sensation, and thus not open to question.

Hodge simply refused to accept that natural laws alone could create complex organisms that fit into their niches so perfectly and that evolution could explain origins.

Meanwhile at the college across town (a totally separate institution) President John Maclean also rejected Darwin's theory of evolution.

Insisting on the principle of design in nature, McCosh interpreted the Darwinian discoveries as more evidence of the prearrangement, skill, and purpose in the universe.

The Seminary held to Hodge's position until his supporters were ousted in 1929, and the college (Princeton University) became a world class center of the new science of evolutionary biology.

[6] The debate between McCosh as president of the college and Charles Hodge, head of Princeton Seminary, during the late 1860s and 1870s exemplified the classic conflict between science and religion over the question of Darwin's evolution theory.

[8] He married 29 September 1845, Isabella (died 12 November 1909), daughter of Alexander Guthrie, surgeon, Brechin, and had issue —