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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 552, 20 January 1950, Page 5

+ Sir-One point in this discussion stands out clearly: that the only result from any academic discussion on such a theory must be inconclusive, for the reason that the whole case for evolution is based on a pure hypothesis. The most regrettable feature is that, in supporting such anti-God theories, adherents to the evolution bogy have to make blasphemous statements such as the following in one correspondent’s’ letter: "For ali he (man) knows he may be just an experiment." The infallible Scriptures declare that "God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female." That this likeness was marred and ruined by the Fall, is the tragic circumstance that the human race finds itself in. But for the marvellous plan of redemption back to God revealed and consummated at Calvary, man’s condition would indeed have been terrible to contemplate. Apart from this, evolution is a heritage from paganism hatched in heathen darkness by Anaxagoras and later propounded by Plato. Since then it has been used down the centuries for the purpose of casting doubt on one of the most profound, noble, majestic and reasonable. pronouncements ever rerecorded: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In the only field that possibly could provide some little ray of evidence supporting the assumptions ‘of evolution generally-palaeontology-all front-rank investigators agree and admit the riddle of the stones has beaten us. Therefore, in the words of Sir Charles Marston, all the absurd and vain attempts to disprove the sublime Creation story, including those of recent fossil experts, can be classed as so much "scholastic debris" of "science" so-called.

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STENBERG

(Palmerston North).

( Abridged.-Ed. )