CREATION & EVOLUTION

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1925, Page 1

CREATION & EVOLUTION

SIR OLIVER. LODGE’S VIEW. [Australia & X.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, December I. Sir Oliver Lodge, delivering a Huxley lecture made a remarkable pronouncement upon the subject of creation. He urged there was no essential opposition between creation and evolution. Tt was a mistake to put evolution forward in opposition to creation. This leads to the exclusion of minds from the universe and replaces mind by mechanism. Creation and evolution were not two processes, but a single gradual one whirl) can reverently he followed by the human mind. Ether of space is the undifferentiated all extensive substance which is the raw material of which everything is composed. Filler must be imagined to be knotted up here and there into minute specks of two kinds—protons and electrons, with positive and negative electric charges. “ I have,’ Sir Oliver Lodge said.

“ attempted to produce knotting in the laboratory, hut the experiment was an abject failure.” Continuing Sir Oliver Lodge said: “The sun is losing substance at the rale of four million tons per second, but it will take one hundred and fifty thousand million years to expend one per cent of its substance. Compared with this, human history was a mere llash. Man was still most imperfect: hilt it was consoling to know that humanity had done so much in its short history. The story of man, however, really began when the sun’s ncl>ulate were formed two million years ago. The end will, apparently, lie the disappearance of matter and the reappearance of an infinite other field. As man started with ether he may bo getting hack to ether. Nevertheless, there is a recuperative process as well as a destructive one. I urge that creation is a continuous process, going on and never stopping. Spiritual things can advance throughout higher and higher stages towards perfection. This is the aim and purpose of the ultimate and infinite term God.”