SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 October 1928, Page 5

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

THEORY OF EVOLUTION.. (United Press Association, —By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.) LONDON, Oct. 4. , “I see? nothing in evolution which, conflicts with belief in creation,” said Dean Inge at the Church Congress. “We must not defy the principle of evolution. There are those who think that time alone will bring the golden age, but the devil replies’, ‘I am evolving too.’ The idea of the evolution of the whole universe is contradicted by what we know of astronomy. I believe the chief revelation God has granted this generation has been through the natural sciences. If we denounce science we do so at the peril of grieving the spirit of truth. Evolution is tlie only method whereby God carries out his purposes in the world.” Bishop. Barnes followed. He said: “Owing to humanity’s ancestral history there is a tendency' to attach an exaggerated importance to the so-call-ed laws of nature. Personally I find plain evidence of purpose in the prolonged development of life upon earth which culminated in the creation of man. Belief of survival of human personality' after bodily death is bound up in our conception of the nature of God. If we accept Christ’s view w cannot bolieve God will allow anW ; - of value in the universe to be destroyed, but we cannot say how man’s spirit and personality will be preserved. We must be content with Saint Paul’s confident hope that God will give it body.”