EVOLUTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4281, 15 November 1876, Page 4

EVOLUTION.

To the Editor,

; Sm,—ln reading over your review of the • *New Zealand Magazine, ’ last evening, I observed some extracts from a paper on • EvoiUtioh by Captain Hatton. Thetollowv ing.ia one? “If the human eye wasspeci- : ’ally was it created imperfect, 1 so tbai a' niunah optician can point pot how it might be improved ? ‘ * Ihen. Helmholtz is . ; roferped to. Might there not be a defect in ~ Helpiholtz!fl,own eye. which led him to ’ imagine that there was imperfection in the eyes of others ? If the'eye “might be imf roved,” who could improve it? I suppose le who. qiade it. We are told in. the Bible that God' 'planted the ear and formed the eye, and 1 tajre leave to. think they are perfectly afippted fOr the purposes they fulfil. Hdttoa denies special creation, oh . ‘tii'c grbhadthht "erne animals have organs which,are; apparently defective or useless. Are we to ignore the ten thousand evidences of design, because there are some phenomenaiin! nature we chnnot- explain ? Are -not therevidences, of design the very death blow of Darwinism? while some of Darwin’s explanations of natural phenomena are so fall of groundless asfeumptioap as to be . absolutely sickening. ,If special creation be of anOihaliea in' nature, Tie. denied on, 1 the same ground. Ana the ’inevitable copsequence of this iis rank infidelity, or, more correctly, Atheism!; r for if ho design, What beocimes of ; the/tesUrrecrioh and a future state? Ijf J there kdesign in the end f there must be do- '• simlmThP means. Captain Hutton says he bpfteves Evolution aim .Christianity rtoonoiliaable.: -It cannot surely be the kind of • Christianity taught in. the Bible which he meaiis;- for/the Bible is to a very great extent a record of God's works and designs. I ; confesa T feel forced to believe that the who thinka that the Bible ovn be reconciled

withsueh views as those held ! by Captain Hutton must either be ignoraht of its tiabh}- . lQCii faith in it. The Bible is n-t in the nands of the potter,—l am, &o. } Gamma. Roslyo, November 11.