THEORY OF EVOLUTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 668, 21 May 1929, Page 8

THEORY OF EVOLUTION

PROFESSOR J. C. SfEARi*. JO HNSON S A CORiss MR. NORMAN BURTON T-CRMg; ‘he folkr^tr stuer * nm P " yt- hf*** I*' 1 *' 1 " : =». :y ’ V _v ' ; ■ 1'- T'jy 1- -• -n . u A.- Cl! varsity GaOege. u* vut.-ec: vf fc* d, fit with in a >-= way. A c.rar and can-tit et; uwua* «f fi; present _ r:<sti&r. re-gar*tag »* the ry* -tf Erofetct w--- t w of p*-. gr: meat am :-ng ;1i: f ‘ dfverse problem* art ootr>:=*.• t* Juthzrtty .Another re.;t: an "honey states ~~-a- Natxrxi Selecmm us _.-r : - . r result-tg the € rseituve entfti «' new adapt.ve firra 1 ’ Thi« - Our prefess-nr? rug ' P - -at quite clearly ant can fid. that % the-try of erokuts r:t etthsd? : 3se-t :-n ascaraited esnabl:she-d fact*. There more conjecture tut fact it h Lt -s irply The smientifi : ntrltat: rg ha* to 6 much filling izu and «tonjecturs has t> hriuge rt.tr y gu-5- _n:> is. cf cc-str. quite a legtt.mate :etu.u. nremiei the experts are careful to tch us suactx where fa; cs end and conjecture begir*. end the tendency to igr.e re aeacrOL.we net to be told r-l_urly :hct : - problem, cf man's ancestry 1* net tu tressaoc of certainty wr - n certaimdc«es net really exist. : r.ere are -everai rival thecrles : Evolution. They cam : t al. tr>. that natural selection dee- Lmcv everything ithers assert that rarcril selection d r-es nothing. S-:m- b j fict Evclutfcn has been caused by tre? ir.t rraducl variations ethers say 1: has been a series of sudden jumps. 3 thoroughly endid. impart mb ant authoritatrre statement cf hi tree Are we to rererd Frciess r Sperr:Jofcasoc s concluding remark, that "tfc; real jolt is more likely to ~ome frea comparative an th ro rl cgj 5 t threat? Is this a hint that cox.para-knock-out blow to religion? 1-teT - gent Chri.-xiar. reople r : tr-reb> The attack wi" t-e met when it Christianity is not xt easily killed as