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EVOLUTION.
NO CONTRADICTION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
The first number of the new series of The Rock, a local publication under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, containa...a most interesting article in the altitude of that Church towards the theory of Evolution. Science and religion, it states. being both of Ged in no way contradict each other. There is nothing contrary to Christian doctrina in the theory of evolution. Gut on the other hand the Roman Catholic Church regards it as unproven by the evidence to hand St. Auguštine. it is pointed out, had a very clear conception of the evolutionary theory Biteen hundred years ago.
into
i didhutt to avoid the, na consciousness developed At suspicion that he publicity given every stage, in this vast proves any attempe to explain the fand progress, something new, bag Brigin of life mises. From other come, we know not how, causes than the pure love of scien-existence. There was a time when the truth. For maar the very matter, er sind, the soul of riaa, existebel of life on Baid planet is | wen nef;' big how they are. Earh proof of the existence of a has arisen as part of a vast schente Creator. On the other hand there planned by, God. And the soul of are others who appear to consider man, is the glory of the whole that the production, of living design.". matter from non-living constituenta. would be a terrible new to ligious beliefs. This accounts for the Butter in rationalistic cirefes when eläinis to have produced life
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It is to be noted that in this passage each one of the statements is, nothing more than a matter of opinion. The whole conception here set out may be very beautiful,
"Did the works ramerated : the Hemeron appear instant or were they produced succes
full in time that which its nature demands, did'this come from those anal qualities which God implanted, as in a germ, in the
When they fore president of the British-ociation treats us to a dissertation on what he has been pleased to eat Darwinism we naturally "ask him for this proofs Three so-called proofs ace surmises, and depend altogether on
a test cul are put forward.but there in solid proof for any Similar remarks apply to the ques
one of them. In fact St. Augustin». tion of the origin of man. The imelt seeds to have held very difference, between the two cases is similar views fitteen hundred years that one can be controlled by ex• periment while the other cannot. On the other hand it is also trpe that religious teachers and preach-sively, or again, if we see anything ers as a rule lose no opportunity of combatting the possibility of the production of life from non- life. It has even happened that these reachers have been mora zealous very act of creation itself?" (De that the Church herself in maia-Genesi adlitteram, B.K. IV, "EK. tining their opinionis. It is wel! 23). Lo remember that the Church his erver made any declaration as to the origin of living matter, Were some chemist to demonstrate the production of life in his laboratory from genuinely non living materials the Church would regard such an occurence without the slightest certain similarity between curtala aların. In fact it is only in eun-kinds of ape The stir caused by ebontents an buen and we can paratively recent times that proofs Sir Arthur Keith's address on the of the existenperol God have been questions Darwin right? deduced from the negation of spon clearly due to other cases than taneous generation. And indeed the love of seiner Catholies were the negation of spontaneous genera- naturally interested to hear what tun fests not on any dogmatic Si Arthur had to say after "the statement but on the absence of any severe handling he had received"at scientific proof of its occurence. It the hands of Mr. Belle, who is not too much to say that serious proved that he was not abreast of blotogists are becoming more "and" "the most recent literature on the more convinced that there is such subject. Not only Catholics but all a chasm between living and non-thoughtful peoph must have been
ving things that it will never be bridged. The Church looks on the ner as she does on any other matter of scientific interest, strong in her knowledge that there can never be any contradiction betweea seience and religion, since both are concerned with realities which are equally of Gnd.
Ke
disappointed with this paper. In the first place there is nothing new whatever in the evidence, brought forward. We are as far as ever from the missing link. Again the paper had nothing to do with Ine winism as properly understood. The address was a general treat- ment of the subject of evolution with the assertion that somehow or other man derives his origin, hem at family of apes now extinct.
One would suppose that serious scientists would realise this fact when dealing with the questions Yet we and some of thein acting The only startling novelty in this as if they expected to overthrew address was the conclusion that th the teachings of religion, by their brain of a man and of a monkey scientific theories. So long as only differ in size. He concludes Scientists confine their assertions that the mind of a man and of a Li matters of established facts monkey only differ is the same borne out by definite experienta! way, and that presumably, when proof then they will be always monkeys have brains as large as istened to with respect. But when, men that monkeys will be men. as is becoming anfortunately to This is very poor kind of reason- cominou nowadays in more than one ing to put before an intelligent department of knowledge, scientists | audience.
The
most uneducated assert as facts what at most are presoa, who is familiar with the more or less probable hypotheses, ways of monkeys and of men will they must not expect thoughtful have no difficulty in seeing that people to take them seriously.
hokeys and men differ in so many In no branch of knowledge is this ways that the statement is absurd. tond-ney moreoticeable, than in It is not so much the different kind what is now designated by the in- of things which nonkeys and men posing name of natkrupology. The de which should be compared but theory of evolution is especially rather the manner in which both chusson as a fertile field for sperm.
aut. One in fact acts like a reason- lution. The usual method employable being, the other ke an ed by modern writers who favour irrational animal.
the doctrine of evolution is to re- This address does not in the least- mark casually in the giming of attempt to defend the chief theory their article that the final proofs of Darwin, which is now rejected have not for the monent came to by all missed authorities, that hand, and then to proceed as if of Natural Selection.
surinise
were
Mendel
This was mere matters of
Darwin's
principal contribution, in Cstablished facts.
the
story of evolution. A good example of this kind of about the same time contributed thing is to be found in the case of other laws to the theory of descent. Dr. Barnes, the present Protestant Those of the Abbot Mendel are Bishop
of Birmingham. On the becoming more and more important ncesion of the meeting of the in their application. Those of British Association in 1020 A
Darwin are kept alive by a kind sermon was preached by rim. This ¦ of_artificial respiration: preacher is a distinguished pure Even so Darwin's defenders are mathematician, and was then Cay not always fair to his memory. H.
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