Sir,-It seems unbelievable that there are still people who can so mix the separate fields of religion and science as to perpetuate a war such\ as has been fought on these pages for the last few weeks. Do these people realise (1) that science, if it be pure science, is not in the slightest degree concerned with the sphere of religion; (2) that many of the theories they are propounding have ‘long ago been discarded; (3) that, to any clear-minded person, the issues are relatively unimportant? Why the difficulty in accepting the Theory of Evolution? These people maintain that subsequent research has proved Darwin at fault; some, even, that the Theory of Evolution has been discarded, in favour of what I do not know: Nothing could be more absurd or more utterly wrong. Subsequent research has served only to strengthen the Theory, questioning, perhaps, some of the. details of its working as set down by Darwin, but never has the main theory beef dropped. Perhaps a source of bother has been found in the common fallacy that Darwin mentions that Man has descended from the monkeys. But never did he teach this. On the contrary, he stated that these two creatures had evolved side by side, simultaneously. How much better it would be if men of religion would not meddle with science, or men of science with religion. Ocience merely teaches the means adopted in the Creation. Let this be remembered by those who cannot refrain from using the Bible as a scientific handbook.
L. K.
MACDONALD
(Wellington). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 25
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