THE HONGKONG
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WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 18,
1935
SCIENCE DEFENDS
THE BIBLE
DARWIN'S THEORY JUST
IMAGINATION
in a striking address recently, it comes to pass that if man and Bir Ambrose Firming, the famous' the anthropoid apes have a`com. scientist, challenged the Darwin- mon ancestor all the above aston- Lan theory of the descent of man ishing powers and faculties should and declared that the bodily re- be present in ever advancing de surrection of Christ was one of gree man, and totally absent the most certainly attested facts in the collateral animat, the ape." in human history to those who
have examined the evidence.
THE GREAT ERROR
The Darwinian theory of man's
The great error the Darwinian age-long evolution from an animal anthropologists made was to as- stock, he declared, was the prosume that organie evolution by duct rather of Imagination thanTM natural selection, as "Darwin 'based upon indisputable evidence.
Sir Ambrose, who was deliver postulated, could take place under conditions which were quite differ
ing his presidential address to the ent from those prescribed by Dar- Victoria Instituto and Philoso win. The Darwinian theory might phical Society of Great Britain, be valid provided the assumed in London, asalysed the evidence conditions held good, but if they concerning the discoveries of re could not be shown to have existed mains of supposed ancestors of then the theory fell to the ground. man, and said it was evidence!
"We can quite appropriately that the Darwinian anthropolo-assert," proceeded Sir Ambrcan, gists, urged by their fundamental that the origin of man is to be postulate that evolution must be looked for in the creative power true, were tempted to give quite of a self-conscious Creator, and undus weight to asciated paci suprome Intelligence and will.
Wa cannot, howover, assume that!
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"1 submit,” said Sir Ambrose, mere abstract term such *that we cannot conalder we have evolution, which merely connotes any serious proof of the evalution of modern man from an animal gradual change, is a vera causa in stock,... We have not the small-scientine sunse. Accordingly, it is no explanation at all to assert
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est knowledge of how empty that man has been evolved from space first became occupied with an animal form. the most rudimentary form of "We can say, certainly, that mattor. Neither have we any con- there is evidence of thought in
life originated. the coption of how
universe,
events have over happened or can from countless Instantly to feed large multitudes, years hence is futile."
Adherence to the doctrine of happen which are outside of or We cannot in any way bring it into existence, apart from previ, metrical facts which are not the or to create wine out of water atį
te product of our own minds, and a word, or raise dead human be evolution was entirely inconsis different from those or our pre-
hence that there must be upings to life, seeing that the evid- great gaps which no evolutionary reme intelligence as its source, ence la overwhelming that He tea with the belief in the funda sent limited experience of Nature. mental doctrines of Christianity In so doing they are building on theory has been able to bridge." and therefore creative power and Himself was raised to life again, and New Testament teaching.
the sands of an uncertain, ever- will as the origin of li
as He had predicted, three days - BELIEF IN SURVIVAL
after Ile had most assuredty "It is a matter greatly to be changing aclence, Instead of rest- Broadly and generally we might
suffered physical death of the deplored," he said, "that some ing on the rock of the increasingly ministers of religion should ac "But there is no adequate proof body by crucifixion, universal, conviction of humanity of the extensive distribution or "We have no right to assert capt as demonstrated proof the verified inspired Scriptures, which aldo not comprise the guesses of as shown by burial customs as large existence of any skeleton that these statements are fictitious, unconfirmed speculations of well as in the phenomena of con- science, was that cogny death did remains to justify the assumption unless we have most carefully materialistic anthropology, deny fallible minds, but the utterances not terminato personat existence that there did exist in past times examined the evidence, and found the possibility of miracle or ex- uf holy men of God, who spake as in human beings. No other ani-many intermediate types of or it certainly invold. Those who ceptional action on the part of, they were moved by the Holy
ganic beings or common ancestors have done so are agreed that the the Deity, and
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say that the widespread, nimoat
Hence,
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mal exited the smallest trace
et man ana tae ape, in such man- bodily resurrection of Christ is of this faculty or feeling.
ner and gradually varying type as one of the most certainly attested whatever the pure nateriast might assert, the verdict of the to justify the assumption of Dar-facts in human history. But, if winian evolution. There are, so, it certifies all previous Biblical then, no sufficient reasons for de- miracles, and it was unquestion They might bring forward other claring the evolutionary origin of ably predicted in prophecy, which
definitely fs n continuni miracle." arguments to show that the hu-the human race as n man mind had faculties of which certain fact."
bulk of mankind was that body was not everything.
in the
the
But the theory of evolution not Sir Ambrose said they could only falled to explain the origin not the least traces were tound give irrefutable proof, from the of man's excellence and mental
truc animal races. No
inw of dissipation of energy and, superiority, it also failed to ex- animal made for itself any dress from the radlo-active transforma- plain his degradation and evil use or article for personal adoramention of matter, that the physical of his powers or had any sense of beauty or univerze could
The Biblical account of man's not have existed made any drawings or representa for an infinlie past time. In re-origin might not be altogether free tions of other objects or animals.jecting the idea of creation by from difficulties, but i was much None buried its dead with any Divine will and power, the evolu- more in touch with the fact that signs of expectation of revival, tionist claimed that the only kind sa approved assumption of a grad- and none contrived or made any of beginning which could be ual stage by stage, spontaneous, tool or weapon,
accepted as true was one which automatic, advance, from a wholly appealed to his own finite intelli- animal form of iite. vence. Ho was prepared to accept- the Darwinian hypothesis, because
If, then, there is such a sharp ly marked difference-between the animal mind and the human mind, the problem which the evolution. ist has to face is to explain how
POPULATION PUZZLE---
It was intelligible to him. He dis- After discussing rates of in- missed creation by Divine flat as crease in man, Sir Ambrose sald impossible, because he could not if prehistoric man had anything" form any clear idea of how it took like the lowest rate of procreation, ¡place.
and had been living on the carta: "We men," wald Sir Ambrose, for any period like ten milleniums, "are conscious of our own exis- he would have multiplied to an ex- tence and thinking power, and tent to fill up nearly the whole that We, ourselves, can begin, known world. Yet where were the vast popula- initiate, or create certain things. remains of auch a There, should, therefore, be noth-tion? All that had been found ing heredible' in the idea that were a few dozen akulls and the supreme Intelligence and will skeletons, mostly in isolated and of the Deity, which is evidenced widely separated places. All the to us in the phenomena of the facts were much more consistent inorganic world, should be able to with the Biblical account, and aj create, not merely atomic matter post-glacial date for the creation and energy, but also living matter of mankind. in organic forms.
MIRACLE OF PROPHECY
If the population of the world was now doubling every seventy to one hundred years, there would "We cannot reasonably dismiss then be about four thousand mil- as almple legend and myth the lion human beings on this earth in accounts of the power of the his-the year 2000 anno domini, and it torical Jesus Christ, to create in-was a question whether the earth stantly shoals of fish in a lake would support so many, whore no fish were found just be "Hence," he said, "all talk of fore, or to create bread and fish the future of mankind a million
assume that no Ghost."
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