ORIGIN OF MAN

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 25, 25 October 1920, Page 5

ORIGIN OF MAN

DECLARATION AT CHURCH CONGRESS "END OF VAST EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS" By TelegrftDh—Prae Association—OopjtliM (Rcc. October 2d, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 23. Canon Barnes, in a paper read before the Church Congress at Southend, declared that systematic and scientific observation had practically proved that man- was not created by God, "Jinn," says Canon Barnes, "iB the end of a vast evolutionary process of Divine design. Man is a cousin to the apes, his ancestry going back through.amphibians to fish. Such a discovery gives all our speculations a vastly different background from that of the theologians who elaborated the doctrine of the Trinity. Like them, vfe seek to explain God and His redemptive work through, Christ, but we view man as something in the ■ making,. not as a once innocent being now marred. Man is struggling, not to regain' a lost perfection, but to realise the Divinely-appointed end of the whole terrestrial process. We affirm that God, is still making man, still shaping man's consciousness, which some day will be in the image of God Himself."— Aus,.-N.Z. Cable Assn, ,