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THE HONGKONG

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

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 Fieming, the famous, the anthropold apes have a com scientist, challenged the Darwin mon ancestor all the above aston ian 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 in man, and totally ausent the most certainly attested facts in the collateral animal, the ape." In human history to those who

THE GREAT ERROR have examined the evidence.

The Darwinlan thebry of man's The great error the Darwinian age-long evolution from an animal anthropologists made was to na- stock, he declared, was the pro-sume that organic evolution by ́duct rather of Imagination-than natural selection, as Darwin based upon indisputable evidence. postulated, could take place under Sir Ambrose, who was deliver conditions which were quite differ- ing his presidential address to the ent from those proscribed by Dar- Victoria Instituto and Philoso win. The Darwinian theory might phical Society of Great Britain, bo valld provided the assumed in London, analysed the evidence conditions hold good, but if they concerning the discoveries of recould not be shown to have existed mains of supposed ancestors of thon the theory fall to the ground. man, and said it was evidence

"We cas quite appropriately

that the Darwinian anthropolo- Kiste, urged by their fundamental assort," proceeded Sir Ambrose, "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 undue weight, to isolated speci-supreme intelligence and will. We cannot, however, assume that

mens.

"I submit," said Sir Ambrose, a mere abstract term such "that we cannot consider we have any serious proof of the evolution evolution, which merely connotes of modern man from an animal gradual change, is a verd cause in Accordingly, it stock... We have not the small-scientific sense.

is no explanation at all to assert eat knowledge of how empty that man has been evolved from space first became occupied with the most rudimentary form of an animal form.

"We can say, certainly, that matter. Neither have we any cos there is evidence of thought in ception of how life originated. tho universe, from countless

it We cannot in any way bring

ous lic. Hore, then, are

two

product of our own minds, and

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jevents have ever happened or can instantly to feed large multitudes, years hence is futile."

Adherence to the doctrine of happen which are outside of or a word, or ralse dead human be evolution was entirely inconsis different from those or our pro-

into existence, apart from provimetrical facts which are not the or to create wine out of water at great gaps which no evolutionary hence that there must be a sup- ings to life, seeing that the evid-tent with the belief in the funda-' sont limited experience of Nature. | reme intelligence as its source, ence is overwhelming that He mental doctrines of Christianity In so doing they are buikling 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 It.

us Io had predicted, three days had most assureday after He

"It is a matter greatly to be changing science, instead of rest- he said, "that some ing on the rock of the increasingly suffered physical death of the deplored,"

ministers of religion should ac "But there is no adequate proof body by crucifixion. of the extensive distribution or "We have no right to assert cept as demonstrated proof the verified Inspired Scriptures, which do not comprise the guests of large existence of any skeleton that these statements are fictitious, unconfirmed speculations of

DELIEF IN SURVIVAL

Broadly and generally we might

say that the widespread, almost!

universal, conviction of humanity, as shown by burial customs as

MISSING LINKS

well as in 'tno phenomena of con- remains to justify assumption unless we have most carefully materialistic anthropology. deny fallible minds, but the utterances acience, was that boally death did that there did exist in past times examined the evidence, and found the possibility of miracle or ex- of holy men of God, who spake as not terminate personal existence in human beings. No other ani-many intermediate types of or- it certainly invalid. Those who ceptional action on the part of they were moved by the Holy mal exulvitid ine aualiest traceanic beings or common ancestors have done so are agreed that the the Deity, and el this faculty or feciing. llence, of man and the ape, in such maa- bodily resurrection of Christ is

whatever the pure materialist

bulk of mankind was that the body was not everything.

They might bring forward other

arguments to show that the hu man mind had faculties of which

in

the true animal rates.

No

ner and gradually varying type as one of the most certainly attested might assert, the verdict of the to justify the assumption of Dar-facta in human history. But, if wlaien evolution. There are, so, it certifies all previous Biblical thon, no sumcient reasons for de-miracles. and it was unquestion- claring the evolutionary origin of ably predicted in prophecy, which the human raço as n definitely to a continual miracle.”

But the theory of evolution not certain fact."

Sir Ambrose said they could only failed to explain the origin not the least traces were found give irrefutable proof, from the of man's excellence and mental animal made for itself any dress law of dissipation of energy and superiority, It also failed to ex- or article for personal adornment from the radio-active transforma- plain his degradation and evil un or nad any sense of beauty ortion of matter, that the physical of his powers.

The Biblical account of man's universe could not have existed made any drawings or representa for an infinite 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 it was much None buried its dond with any signs of expectation of revival, Divine will and power, the evolu- more in touch with the fact that tlonist claimed that the only kind an approved assumption of a grad and none contrived or mude any of beginning which could be unl stage by stage, spontaneous, "If, then, there is such a sharp-accepted as true was one which automatic, advance, from a wholly ly marked difference between the appealed to his own finite intelli- animal form of life. animal mind and the human mind, gence. He was prepared to accept. the problem which the evolution ist has to face is to explain how

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it was intelligible to him. He dis- After discussing rates of in- missed creation by Divine at a crease in man, Sir Ambrose said Impossible, because he could not if prehistoric man had anything form any clear idea of how it took like the lowest rate of procreation, placo,

and had been Ilving on the earth "We men," sald 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 creato certain things remains of such a There should, therefore, be noth- tion? All that had been found ing 'incredible 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 n creato, not merely atomic matter post-glacial date for the creation and energy, but also living matter of mankind. in organic forma.

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 simple tegend and myth the ilon 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 ahoals of fish in a Inko would support so many, where no fish were found just be-1 "Heneo," he said, "all talk of fore, or to create bread and dish the future of mankind a million.

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