NO ANTAGONISM?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 188, 29 October 1927, Page 8

NO ANTAGONISM?

Sir, — The faithful will be grieved to find the chameleon-like Mr. J. G. Hughes abandoning his positions and scudding away under cover of a smoke screen of big, meaningless words. Although, as he modestly points out, he is a “high priest,” he is unfortunately no more able than an ordinary layman to explain why it became necessary to create Adam and Eve just on 6,000 years ago, when mankind was already in possession and was spread over all the habitable globe. “Clan Conal” quotes A’Kempis as saying “true faith cannot be deceived.” Admirably hedged! ‘T.C.TJ.” takes up inches of your valuable space in gravely lecturing another for writing over initials €*ven as he has done, and in joining in the modern “soothing syrup chorus” that there is "no antagonism between Religion and Science.” Shades of Roger Bacon, Bruno and Galileo! The truth is that science has serenely added to the world’s knowledge and has triumphed all along the line. Not one

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