Science And Religion

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 1, 18 June 1889, Page 2

Science And Religion

Dr Dallinger has proved by? Ma- '"■ long and patient examination of somi?; of the minutest living creatures that " spontaneous generation,'* orVtftsjf'"' origination of life from not-life. \ '-{s■■ : absolutely fallacious; and, therefore, <-' h '' the presumption, on purely sciehti &?(*'' ' grounds, is that all life must have ' originated in a cause not operating" ro *•-•" nature now. He has shown thaftlfe, 1 . minutest and lowliest living things—&,the least known to us at preaenC otf carth — can only come, like the largest^ 0 and most complex, from pr«eeditfgA living things, f 1 ence the inference tshj£ £ , inevitable that there was a point ltt - /; the creative progress or genesis of * earth, when a power operated as ndK: power now operates, endowing matter t \ dead and inorganic with the uni^uei;^' and wonderful properties and- pow^rel^' of life. We may not even conceiy^ ; -\ of how this was done, but it;mustria' • its primal nature have been the met of the Creator. A scientific man himself; 1 ; and one who has made profound 'and: •/ original scientific researches, he doe* ; " not find anything in physical settee*, to confliot with the great foundattogi ;■*'''. on whioh Christianity rests.- : •-?'■'.:- ••/.-£.